Haraya Puzzle by Mark Justiniani
About the Puzzle
One of the most essential experiences created by art is storytelling. In Haraya, we explore the art of storytelling through the lens of functional art. This limited-edition, 300-piece puzzle introduces a collective and interactive experience between the artist, artwork, and you. With each puzzle piece, the artist’s story is retold. With every image unfolding, we hope it will bring forth a renewed appreciation for Philippine art.
Released in limited boxes only, with no reprints or reproductions once sold out.
Features:
- Finished size is 55.45 cm x 74 cm (21.83 in x 29.13 in)
- 300 pieces, 2 mm chips
- Snug fit for every piece
- With a full-image poster to help in solving
- Made of premium cardboard for less puzzle dust
- Comes in a box with a magnetic closure
- Can be framed after completion
About the Artwork
In Star Gatherer (oil on canvas, 2021), a man drifts through a glowing sky, clutching a sack of collected light. He looks as if he’s been wandering a long time: searching and gathering fragments of brightness in an endless expanse. The work recalls Mark Justiniani’s early explorations with human stories and symbols, merged with his later studies of light, depth, and reflection.
The man becomes all of us in this artwork: moving through darkness, reaching for light, trying to make sense of the space between what is real and imagined. In this quiet suspension, Justiniani reminds us that wonder is never still: it flickers, disappears, and returns again, as infinite as the stars themselves.
About Mark Justiniani
Born in Bacolod, Negros Occidental, Mark Justiniani emerged in the late 1980s as an artist-activist and member of artist collectives ABAY, Salingpusa, Sanggawa, and Sakay. His early works depicted everyday Filipino life with empathy and humor, a gradual pivot from the social realism of the nineteen-seventies Marcos era.
By the late 1990s, Justiniani began exploring beyond painting, experimenting with mirrors, glass, steel, and light to create immersive constructions that examined perception, depth, and infinity. His five-year stay in the United States in the 2000s further deepened this inquiry, shifting his focus toward the intersection of the virtual and the real. While rooted in narrative and magical realism, his art continues to probe how light, reflection, and perspective shape human experience.
Justiniani has exhibited widely in the Philippines and abroad and received the prestigious Thirteen Artists Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 1994.
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Every purchase of this puzzle is matched with book donations to children from disadvantaged communities in the Philippines in support of CANVAS’ 1 Million Books for 1 Million Filipino Children Campaign.