Mara G. Szyp
Mara (she/her) is an Argentinean-Canadian artist. She specializes in Seascapes and textured abstracts. Her artworks have been selling internationally since 2017.
“When I am birthing a new art piece, it expresses who I was while morphing into who I will become”.
Mara currently resides in Sooke, BC on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, Canada on the traditional unceded WSÁNEĆ territory.
Mara started painting after her second unrelated cancer. She creates art because it gives her a purpose. And a tool to express everything she is feeling and thinking.
She puts all of herself in each art piece she births. She is a very intuitive artist, and her senses are always open to perceive the world around her and that’s something you can see through her art.
The artist has an unusual sensitivity, an empath some say. Events affect her deeply, overwhelming her senses at times.
Human Seeds
36” x 24”
Oil on Canvas
$800.00
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In a canvas where millions of seeds of all the colours in the world are floating, with as many colours diversity as the artist was able to paint. We see the immense range of the many skin colour combinations and shades that us as human beings have. And as the world keeps growing and as we continue to break race barriers and fall in love with someone completely different to us and we create life from that love, we amalgamate more and more the incredibly beautiful range of colours!
This painting is a tangible colour expression to show how silly it is to discriminate based on skin colour, or on beliefs. How senseless the extreme violence and utterly disrespectful to those who are simply from a different shade than “the majority” because not too far away from tomorrow that majority will be anything but white.
Faces of this world - (Asia, Zahid, Malachiah & Kimi)
20” x 16” by 4 panels polyptych
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
$300 each panel
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Asia intends to represent all Asian Communities. Kimi intends to represent the Aboriginal people, First Nation, Inuit and Metis communities across the world. Malachiah Intends to represent the All the black communities across the world. Zahid intends to represent the Middle Eastern communities across the world.
Living in a world where we often fear what we do not know, and more commonly than not we segregate, discriminate, judge and sometimes even punish based on colour of skin, religion, cultural differences, accents, etc.
The intention behind this collection is to put faces to the many children that did not choose to be born here or there, that didn’t have a say what their skin would look like or which religion their families would worship and believe in this or the other doctrine, where they would be born, what the social perception of them would be, and yet, they are being juggled around as domino pieces in a game. A game that they have not a say but their lives keep ending even before starting SOLELY because of these “reasons”.
Just like with The Six Seeds… that were carried out in the wind, we do not choose none of these things, but they should not be a justification for anyone to look down on anyone.
Faces of this world- (Asia, Zahid, Malachiah & Kimi) | 20” x 16” by 4 panels polyptych | Oil and Acrylic on Canvas | $300 each panel
Human Seeds | 36” x 24” | Oil on Canvas | $800.00
Kimi intends to represent the Aboriginal people, First Nation, Inuit and Metis communities across the world.
Zahid intends to represent the Middle Eastern communities across the world.
Malachiah Intends to represent the All the black communities across the world.
The Six Seeds
This is a story to invite you and yours to think.
I hope you enjoy it.
There was a flower whose seeds were in its petals.
Once her life reached maturity those seeds would be carried by the wind through the air, landing in soil and growing into a plant of their own. And with blessings, would blossom as well.
6 Six seeds made it that springtime.
One traveled FAR and reached a land of opportunities, where magical things were to unravel for it. Following old traditions.
One traveled EAST and found a home within the cracks of the dry soil and with much effort it was able to reach a spot where it would try its best and to grow and thrive. The struggle was immense, but it was about being the best it could be and standing its ground.
One traveled WEST, where there was an immense abundance of water, but so many other plants to compete with. So, the soil, the sun and the rain were a daily battle amongst them all.
One traveled SOUTH where it was colourful and musical, and there the seed found a place that didn’t have much of anything, but it had the will to try and be it's better version with what it had.
One traveled NORTH where it was incredibly cold. The soil was frozen, but it made it to a tiny bit of soil where it held on as strong as it could, making itself small to contain the little heat it had left to try and survive.
And the last seed CLOSE fell right at the feet of the matured plant where it had come from.
The 6 seeds were born from the same mother and yet they all ended up in completely different terrains.
Different climates, different food sources, different environments to prosper and grow.
Culturally different because each place would require a different set of skills to reach the minimal essentials they would need to survive.
The seed that made it FAR had its skin shimmer with all the magical and abundant resources, it grew from infancy learning to be the best at everything. Sometimes with too much pressure but excelling.
The seed that made it EAST had its skin darken like clay. Growing most of the time under a scorching sun. Almost burning it but without burning. It would grow strong and defiant.
The seed that made it WEST had its skin grow thick leaves and roots to help it hold on tightly to the swampish terrain. It would prosper and propagate.
The seed that made it SOUTH had its skin warm in tone. It would resist times without water or times under the sun making it gold. It would learn to appreciate the small things.
The seed that made it NORTH had its skin ivory and delicate. Thin. Weak. Beautiful but too delicate. It would seek to conquer other places to prosper and grow.
And the seed that fell CLOSE, right at the feet of its mother plant, looked just like mother.
Each would live an incredible life.
FAR would grow without missing anything. It would have everything it ever wanted at its fingertips. And when in turn it had to bear its own seeds, they would be born of extreme abundance, and would not survive without living in a place exactly like where they were born.
EAST would have plenty of seeds; its seeds would be so many because sadly, it knows that many of them would not make it. It grows many seeds to give itself a bigger chance of survival. East’s dark skin would make it stand out from everyone else’s. And because of that, other plants would fear them, judge them, and try to stop them from growing. But they would not succeed. EAST would grow no matter what. And it would be stronger than most.
WEST would evolve and instead of seeds in the air it would propagate under the earth through its roots. Finding possibilities to continue growing in a balanced relationship with the land. Respecting it and worshiping it and in return, the land and all its creatures would allow safe passage to the ever-expanding roots and WEST would grow beyond its limits.
“South” would be seen as different everywhere it would go; its golden tone would make others envious of it and others would try to make them look as if they weren’t good enough. But SOUTH, so close to its own roots, would get the strength from them to keep going. The roots would always be flowing with rich nutrients, water, and food. And SOUTH would learn to survive and prosper no matter where they would end up.
“North” would be seen as perfection. And although its roots and its growth would be at times stunted by the lack of warmth and for not having grown healthy strong roots as each seed would be for its own. Somehow, they would be the admiration of everyone else. North would keep to itself and grow in small groups. It would become a rarity and yet be the one that judges everyone else based only on their own inabilities to have what others have.
And the one "Close,” it would just do exactly as its predecessors did before it, and after it. It would not excel, it would not want to get better, it would not want to grow too much or too little. It will just be. It would see how others fight to better themselves, it would witness the desperate need of East, it would witness the abuses West and South would endure, but it would remain unmoved.
In their own way, each seed would grow beautiful plants with truly unique and gorgeous flowers. Each with their perfumes and their own thorns.
In their own way, each would live the best life they could, but they would go about it in different ways.
Some make it on their own, focusing on their roots, their families, their values. Some travel in the air to other terrains and exploring, learning, improving, some invading other places and taking the space of the ones that were before without thinking about the implications of their actions, or who they were hurting.
And some simply…being.
Do you think Mother Nature ever thought that its seeds would hurt each other?
Do you think that to survive it would justify any means to do so?
Do you think not respecting others and just taking is the way to go?
Do you think some have more rights than others or some are better than others?
No, right?
-Then why do you live your life allowing that to happen all around you, making yourself blind to it and continuing with your life like if nothing was happening?