Dania Ortega, Chicadania, completed the first part of her Fine Arts studies at the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogota, Colombia, and then finished 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 of the Colombian culture. By changing continent and entering the UB, Chicadania refined her style and found her own language.  

She dedicated her first years to sculpture in iron and bronze, exploring volume and three-dimensional forms
, but as one thing led to another, the artist came across mural art, large format painting, and fell in love; she found it incredible to represent volumetric forms with colors on flat surfaces. Chicadania turned to the world of murals and began painting portraits of her children, whom she made up as superheroes and took pictures of them to later portray them on the walls of the street.

For several years the artist reflected the growth and physical change of her children through her murals, from children to adolescents, until sculpture returned to her life. In her career as an artist and as a woman, Chicadania wanted to talk about her feminine world, she had already started talking about her children, and she turned her sculptural characters into jewelry inspired by ancestral women, leaders of the past, this is when the brand Cacika was born, designed and produced by her.