‘Daughter of Ayida’ explores the artist’s complex relationship with her grandmother, and the country’s folkloric and spiritual traditions. In the Haitian Vodou pantheon, Ayida is the name of the important ‘serpent rainbow’ spirit and the painting's central figure also represents connection to land and ancestors over time and space, a particular preoccupation for the artist following her move to Europe and geographic separation from her family. In this protagonist's transformation (death) is being witnessed by female ancestors.