Story of Mama Gaia Painting
Here is where I share with you the story of my vision about the Earth herself.
Oceana Petra
3/8/20262 min read
''Mama Gaia'' painting, acrylic on canvas, 40x50cm.
What if this Earth we live on were a person, one beautiful woman? What would She say? Wow, how many stories She would be able to tell...
What would She say about us, so-called Homo Sapiens? What kind of species are we? How do we treat Her? Do we even care about Her or are we just exploiting Her without even thinking about consequences?
This painting came to me while I was contemplating life in this human form. I was connecting to my body through breath and rooting down, feeling as if I were the Earth herself. I felt a bit sad, honestly. I felt like a mother who gave to their children all the wealth and abundance they needed so they could just enjoy their existence and live in abundance, joy, and ease, but instead, what do I see? I see them fighting, destroying each other. I see some of them poisoning my veins (water streams), acting really disrespectful toward me and other life on me. I felt really sad. I felt that something was really wrong with society in general.
I know many of us now are worried about Her, but honestly, Her message to me (us) was: ''Don't worry about me. I'm gonna be just fine, like I always was, but worry about yourselves because you are cutting the branch that you are sitting on. Human child, currently, you are the weakest link in the chain. You made yourselves so weak. Eating poisons and calling it food; not using your bodies for what they were designed (walking, moving, doing), but instead you close yourselves into weird structures where fresh air doesn't exist, and you are spending your days in your self-imposed prisons. What a weird species you've become, and you call yourselves the wisest of all life...''
This painting exists so it can remind us that we are her. Our bones and rocks are of similar material. We are made of Her elements, so it is really weird to hive off from those elements so much. In order to survive, we need to connect to these elements, get stronger, and become more resilient.
Oceana Petra ~ World of Arts
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