Dania Ortega, Chicadania, studied the first part of her Fine Arts degree at Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá, Colombia, before completing her degree at the University of Barcelona (UB) in Spain. During her university life, she worked as an artist, designer and creative for commercial premises, adapting plastic languages typical of Colombian culture. After changing continents and entering the UB, Chicadania refined her style and found her own language.

She spent her early years working in iron and bronze sculpture, exploring volume and three-dimensional forms. But as one thing led to another, the artist came across mural art, large-scale painting, and fell in love with it; she found it incredible to be able to represent volumetric forms with colour on flat surfaces. Chicadania throws herself into the world of mural art and begins by painting portraits of her children, whom she used to make up as superheroes and photograph, before portraying them on the walls of the street.

For several years, the artist reflected the physical growth and change of her children through her murals, from childhood to adolescence, until sculpture returned to her life. In her career as an artist and as a woman, Chicadania wanted to speak about her feminine world; she had already begun to do so by speaking of her children, and she transformed her sculptural characters into jewels inspired by ancestral women and leaders of the past. This is when the Cacika brand was born, designed and produced by her.