The drawing is multi-layered: the light grey motif outlines the countryside of Puerto Rico based on the artist's memories of his grandparents' land; the dark grey layer offers a silhouette of red and white oaks found in the northeast. A grouping of pigeons is flying along the gray surface, emerging and disappearing behind ceiba trees in wax pencil across the paper's surface. The ceiba tree is native to tropical and subtropical areas of the Americas, Mexico, the Caribbean, and tropical West Africa. Ceiba is a word from the Taínolanguage meaning "boat." Taíno is an extinct Arawakan language that the Taíno people of the Caribbean spoke.