Gaia returned to Kingston in 2015 to create “Pronkstilleven,” which references the Dutch word for an ornate or ostentatious still-life. Building on a series of works that began with Savage Habbit Murals Project in Jersey City, NJ, the still-life becomes a foreground for historical figures. For “Pronkstilleven,” Gaia painted the portraits of American neoclassicist painter John Vanderlyn and abolitionist and women’s rights activist Sojourner Truth. Gaia juxtaposed the “otherness” of both figures; one, a well-traveled and educated white painter who was born and died (penniless) in Kingston, and the other, an African-American woman, born into slavery, who freed herself and traveled the country fighting for the rights of others.