This mural by Garrick Marchena, one of Curacao’s most famous muralists, is found at the beginning of the boulevard. Some friends took Garrick to this small beach and he liked the wall, almost shaped like a wave. One of the dogs they took along swam around it, to the private area of the apartment building that is on the other side of the wall and something stuck. Later Garrick realized what stuck: the wall shouldn’t be there. The coastline is everyone’s, nobody should put walls or gates to prevent you from going there. This made him become determinant that the wall was his to paint. If not the beach then at least we can reclaim the walls that are in our way. The woman Marchena painted is similar to the one he painted on a wall behind the bar at Madero beach on Curacao. With her long flowing bluish hair she resembles a mermaid (Mamparia kutu means mermaid in old Papiamentu). Painting her unnoticed was a challenge. Marchena got caught while making the sketch but came back at night to finish it. A modest thumbs up from one of the residents and the fact that nobody painted over it until now must mean that they love it just as much as we do.