This collection of videos is improvisational and was filmed during a trip to the French Polynesia. The segments show the spirit of an island that inspired and influenced Paul Gauguin. His art transformed both the euro-centered views of the time as well as the island itself, which became a symbol of the unity of art, spirituality and nature. Black Pearl is a portrait of the impact this island and its past had on me. Its wild, tropical nature surrounded by dramatic ocean waters were so familiar and yet so different from my home in Brazil. Those landscapes, combined with unconsciously driven forces and random encounters during my passage, formed the artwork. Only later did I come to understand complex philosophical and political problems about the island’s history: Hiva-Oa’s havens of native spiritual nature were hijacked by a European artist escaping Occidentalism in the sense of anti-native colonialism, in addition to the underlaying sexism faced by many a woman on the island.