Chris Santa Maria
@chrissantamaria.bsky.social
visual artist (paper collages + watercolor monotypes) nature/culture/science/politics, director of Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Weyl, cactuses, profile pic by Roger Steffens
inquiries: chris.santamaria@gmail.com
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inquiries: chris.santamaria@gmail.com
www.chrissantamaria.com
ig+tt: @chrisantamaria
Pinned
artist residencies are some of the most nourishing + productive environments to experiment + take risks in, to work through ideas both old + new, to simply have the time + space to feel it all out
my eternal thanks to Jason Andrew of Norte Maar for opening up his Adirondack home and barn for me 🧵1/
my eternal thanks to Jason Andrew of Norte Maar for opening up his Adirondack home and barn for me 🧵1/
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
i miss surfing it
I'm gonna say something controversial but... I miss cable. I miss being able to put a channel on the TV and have it change shows. Even the commercials for some reason I miss. Like im missing out on society.
November 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
i miss surfing it
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Truly, we all win if regular people think less like economists and more like the prison journalist who writes poems about butterflies.
November 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Truly, we all win if regular people think less like economists and more like the prison journalist who writes poems about butterflies.
i love the way this ginko tree looks in the morning
November 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
i love the way this ginko tree looks in the morning
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I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
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couldn't have painted these without my studio assistant @chrissantamaria.bsky.social the grand master paint color mixing wizard
two shell paintings by Elizabeth Fodde-Reguer aka @probablyitalian.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
couldn't have painted these without my studio assistant @chrissantamaria.bsky.social the grand master paint color mixing wizard
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It's sad that 65 years after the publication of this image, the ideas of George Lincoln Rockwell are having a moment, while the ethos of Norman Rockwell is being openly derided by millions.
65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.
November 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
It's sad that 65 years after the publication of this image, the ideas of George Lincoln Rockwell are having a moment, while the ethos of Norman Rockwell is being openly derided by millions.
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IT'S '6-7', COOPER. A GENERATION ALPHA TREND. WHAT THEY CALL A 'MAY-MAY'. IT'S AN ORPHANED SIGNIFIER, NO SIGNS ATTACHED. ONE COULD CALL IT DADAIST, BUT SOMME SAY IT'S TOO STUPID TO BE DADA. IT'S ANTI-MEANING, ANTI-HUMOUR, BUT DAMN IF THOSE KIDS DON'T FIND IT A CRACK-UP.
November 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
IT'S '6-7', COOPER. A GENERATION ALPHA TREND. WHAT THEY CALL A 'MAY-MAY'. IT'S AN ORPHANED SIGNIFIER, NO SIGNS ATTACHED. ONE COULD CALL IT DADAIST, BUT SOMME SAY IT'S TOO STUPID TO BE DADA. IT'S ANTI-MEANING, ANTI-HUMOUR, BUT DAMN IF THOSE KIDS DON'T FIND IT A CRACK-UP.
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Field 37, 2024
paper collage on museum board
17 x 11 inches
paper collage on museum board
17 x 11 inches
October 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Field 37, 2024
paper collage on museum board
17 x 11 inches
paper collage on museum board
17 x 11 inches
saw a late night infomercial on fox news cable when staying at my folks a few years ago where Noem was dolled up in pigtails and baby blue gingham overalls hawking "supplements" or some other grift shit and it was just so gross and insane
a true harbinger
a true harbinger
Worth 1,000 words. This picture is so revealing about so much about this “administration.”
Step back five feet from the dram of any photo about any Trump action or policy, and you’ll see the boom arms, the rigging, the floodlights…
Step back five feet from the dram of any photo about any Trump action or policy, and you’ll see the boom arms, the rigging, the floodlights…
November 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
saw a late night infomercial on fox news cable when staying at my folks a few years ago where Noem was dolled up in pigtails and baby blue gingham overalls hawking "supplements" or some other grift shit and it was just so gross and insane
a true harbinger
a true harbinger
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Love this Rhamphorhynchus specimen held in the Natural History Museum Karlsruhe. It's like seeing a pterosaur in flight, stuck in time.
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Love this Rhamphorhynchus specimen held in the Natural History Museum Karlsruhe. It's like seeing a pterosaur in flight, stuck in time.
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Printers and computers treat each other like they broke up the night before and you’re they’re mutual friend
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Printers and computers treat each other like they broke up the night before and you’re they’re mutual friend
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Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
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along with the heinous literal crimes i think a lot about how there's a kind of moral, national crime in subjecting all of us to this, to this consuming our politics, committed against us by a number of powerful and connected people up to and including the president
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
along with the heinous literal crimes i think a lot about how there's a kind of moral, national crime in subjecting all of us to this, to this consuming our politics, committed against us by a number of powerful and connected people up to and including the president
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Today is the 9th anniversary of the day Maggie stole an entire pecan pie and got drunk from all the sugar. Happy Purloined Pecan Pie Day from our family to yours!
November 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Today is the 9th anniversary of the day Maggie stole an entire pecan pie and got drunk from all the sugar. Happy Purloined Pecan Pie Day from our family to yours!
Rauschenberg famously kept a television on while in the studio and John Cage once compared his solvent transfer drawings to “many television sets working simultaneously, all tuned differently.”
everyone has that one homie who's brain doesn't work unless there's a show on in the background
November 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Rauschenberg famously kept a television on while in the studio and John Cage once compared his solvent transfer drawings to “many television sets working simultaneously, all tuned differently.”
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Sustainable band lineups include four cool people (Ramones), four dorks (Weezer), or two cool people and two dorks (Cheap Trick). Unsustainable band lineups include one cool person and three dorks (Pixies)
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Sustainable band lineups include four cool people (Ramones), four dorks (Weezer), or two cool people and two dorks (Cheap Trick). Unsustainable band lineups include one cool person and three dorks (Pixies)
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Rape is the distillation of the far-right worldview that Trump embodies: a gleefully sadistic act of domination carried out as fulfillment of a supposedly natural hierarchy. It would be weird if Trump wasn’t a rapist, given his ideological commitments—which is before you get to all the accusations.
i mean c’mon. the president’s best friend was the most notorious pedo in the country’s history who ran a massive child trafficking ring. every bit of circumstantial evidence we have says that trump was a participant. if this were a criminal trial we’d have enough evidence to compel a plea deal.
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Rape is the distillation of the far-right worldview that Trump embodies: a gleefully sadistic act of domination carried out as fulfillment of a supposedly natural hierarchy. It would be weird if Trump wasn’t a rapist, given his ideological commitments—which is before you get to all the accusations.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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The Joyce Carol Oates and “books written between 1890-1930 are so ALPHA” thing struck home because it showed how many elites nowadays lack the ability to be moved or find meaning in art beyond what we did watching John Wick and going fuck yea this rules and that explains why they believe in AI art
November 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The Joyce Carol Oates and “books written between 1890-1930 are so ALPHA” thing struck home because it showed how many elites nowadays lack the ability to be moved or find meaning in art beyond what we did watching John Wick and going fuck yea this rules and that explains why they believe in AI art
black holes & time warps by kip s. thorne was my bible in high school but honestly it was tuesday's with morrie by mitch albom that knocked my socks off cuz that shit primed me to seek out good mentors and cherish 'em
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 3:28 AM
black holes & time warps by kip s. thorne was my bible in high school but honestly it was tuesday's with morrie by mitch albom that knocked my socks off cuz that shit primed me to seek out good mentors and cherish 'em
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the fact that doritos doesn’t sell bottles of cool ranch seasoning feels like an enormous missed opportunity
November 11, 2025 at 11:49 PM
the fact that doritos doesn’t sell bottles of cool ranch seasoning feels like an enormous missed opportunity
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all