Been wanting to do a Taino painting for some time now. The biggest challenge was finding reference pictures of taino art and then trying to reinterpret and filling in the gaps. I hope to do more.

The myth is about the creation of the ocean. It’s a story about a man named Yaya who kept his son’s remains in a giant gourd. One day he decided to open it because he longed to see his son, upon opening it water started coming out, and from the bones of his son fish began to come alive.