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Hopeful Darkness

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My work lives in the space between grief and becoming.

Palette knife scars.

Color as memory.

Silence as texture.

 

I don’t paint light.

I paint the reaching for it.

 

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Ingredients:

 

Oil paint.

Palette knives.

Gouache paint.

Watercolors.

ADHD.

Sobriety.

Grief.

Music too loud.

Love that stayed.

Love that didn’t.

Therapy notes.

Spilled coffee.

Old versions of me.

And the stubborn refusal to disappear.

 

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Luis “Lulu” Santiago is a painter, poet, and author creating as 5In7