Carina R. Santos

I am an artist, designer, and writer with a penchant for yarn, mountains, and bad T.V.


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Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless
5 — 28 April 2018
Solo exhibition — West Gallery
High Windows
Philip Larkin


When I see a couple of kids
And guess he’s fucking her and she’s
Taking pills or wearing a diaphragm,
I know this is paradise
Everyone old has dreamed of all their lives—
Bonds and gestures pushed to one side
Like an outdated combine harvester,
And everyone young going down the long slide
To happiness, endlessly. I wonder if
Anyone looked at me, forty years back,
And thought, That’ll be the life;
No God any more, or sweating in the dark

About hell and that, or having to hide
What you think of the priest. He
And his lot will all go down the long slide
Like free bloody birds.
And immediately
Rather than words comes the thought of high windows:
The sun-comprehending glass,
And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows
Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.





Collapsing Space I
watercolour and graphite on paper
2018


Collapsing Space II
watercolour and graphite on paper
2018





Collapsing Space III
watercolour and graphite on paper
2018





Collapsing Space IV
watercolour and graphite on paper
2018



Collapsing Space V
watercolour and graphite on paper
2018






Collapsing Space VI
watercolour and graphite on paper
2018


Collapsing Space VII
watercolour and graphite on paper
2018




Collapsing Space VIII
watercolour and graphite on paper
2018



Collapsing Space IX
watercolour and graphite on paper
2018





Collapsing Space X
watercolour and graphite on paper
2018





Infinite Estrangement
oil on canvas
2018



installation view