Pikin Slee is the second-largest village on the Upper Suriname river, deep in the rainforest. Its four thousand inhabitants are mostly members of the Saramacca tribe, descendants of Maroons who escaped slavery on the Dutch plantations. They live isolated from the outside world, without running water, electricity, roads or the internet, and the only way in is by canoe, about three hours upriver. On her first visit, in the summer of 2012, the artist was intrigued by the village and saw her own history as somehow tied to theirs, in their respective connections to Africa and the Netherlands.