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Chris Santa Maria

@chrissantamaria.bsky.social

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visual artist (mostly paper collages) interested in nature/culture/science/politics, director of Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Weyl, cactuses, profile pic by Roger Steffens inquiries: [email protected] www.chrissantamaria.com ig+tt: @chrisantamaria

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Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · Aug 8

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/

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2h

i'm not going to chide or scold anyone for only now leaving twitter. your private, unspoken acknowledgment that i'm your intellectual and moral superior is all i need

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Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · 2h

i see what you people want (more airbrushed desert landscapes)

Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · 5h

a polycule (of color)

Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · 9d

gooning of the brush (a painters life)

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 18h

the subreddits for luxury watches are some of the darkest places on earth

Rolex subreddit post:

My uncle has Alzheimer's and is often forgetful of his possessions. One of them is a Rolex Submariner. Would I be justified in taking and caring for it as my own instead of having it left neglected and forgotten in his jewelry box? Thanks.

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Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · 16h

🙏😘

Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · 16h

thank youuuu!!

Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · 16h

you are far too kind and generous 🙏

Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · 17h

I'm listening...

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Jen Bekman @jenbee.bsky.social · 17h

Ming Fay is the artist! www.mta.info/agency/arts-...

Shad Crossing, Delancey Orchard

www.mta.info

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Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · 17h

just played pool with Jackie Klein at Painter's Pool and can confirm, she's so nice

Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · 1d

"During a typical tournament, one might overhear an analysis of a major exhibit like the John Singer Sargent show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a conversation involving someone rediscovering the crosshatch or a monologue on cadmium orange."

my calling has called me

The Art of Pool, for Artists Only

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Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · 17h

the tile mosaics at delancey / essex remain some of my favorite in the city

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Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · 17h

thanks Paula!!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

when you tie a tie, try to put in a dimple, like so

a black and white photo of a man in a pinstripe worsted suit, white shirt, and textured necktie. the tie has a nice dimple under the knot.

a photo of donald trump upside down. there is also a nice dimple on his red tie

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ceej @ceej.online · 23h

I think the leak of the incredibly racist young republican group chat only furthers the argument that millennials were the only generation able to use the computer without going insane, mostly because the computer was once a place separate from the real world. but now the real world is also computer

ceej @ceej.online · Apr 28

that a bunch of billionaires have been irreversibly brainwormed by getting addicted to a glorified chat room adds credence to my theory that spending too much time on IRC as a child acts as a powerful inoculant to the worst impulses of an escalatory group dynamic

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 23h

we’ll we’ll we’ll if it isn’t my old friend autocorrect

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Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · 23h

someone hired the wrong lawyer lol

Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · 23h

this kicks ass

Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · 1d

if you don't know about one of the most *insane* lawsuits over the origins of this kick ass desert landscape painting that is definitely not by Peter Doig then do yourself a favor and read this to the end lol

gregorg @greg.org · 1d

are you sure you're not peter doig? www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/01/18/p...

Peter Doig awarded $2.5m in sanctions following legal saga over prison painting

The lawsuit centred on the authorship of a desert landscape painting signed “Pete Doige” and created by an inmate at a Canadian prison

www.theartnewspaper.com

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Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · 1d

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Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · 1d

throwback to this airbrush painting i made when i was a 14-year old zoni desert rat

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Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · 1d

omne trium perfectum

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 1d

this is extremely smart and should be the checkbox all future D candidates have to clear to be taken seriously

Ritchie Torres, the Bronx Democrat and frequent critic of progressives, said Mamdani is “a once-in-a-generation communicator” who has mastered what he called the “three threes”: A candidate in today’s day and age needs to be able to explain ideas in a 30-second vertical social media video, a three-minute television hit and a three-hour long-form podcast.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1d

rest in peace, it's a good day to listen to the mournfully sexy sounds of the D'Angelo-Radiohead mashup album

music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 1d

Study of a Plant with Red-Purple Flowers (which she labelled: 'Sebestena Africana purprurea ulmi folio. Elegantissimo flore' Maria Moninckx

Done #otd 14 Oct 1695 (Met Museum)

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Chris Santa Maria @chrissantamaria.bsky.social · 1d

they always say "keep your receipts" but what's the point when it takes 6-8 months for accounting to even set up your direct deposit ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d

It’s great to be paid for protesting and everything but let me tell you the whole antifa reimbursement process is just terrible