Amongst “Mural Mile”, a 2.5 mile of an array of murals that embody the latinx culture in the San Fernando Valley, there is a mural unlike the rest. This mural, unveiled on March 16, 2014 along a busy strip of Van Nuys Boulevard and Herrick Avenue, is called "Honoring Our Origins". What makes it distinguishable is not the art style or the depicted mountains, plants, and flowers, but the fact that it is the only painting made by women on Mural Mile. These women, better known as HOODsisters (HOOD acronym for Honoring our Origins, Ourselves and our Dreams), is an all-womyn crew dedicated to creating awareness through public art. They have accomplished bringing awareness on male dominance and so much more to the Valley just by depicting Toypurina
