Stephanie Santana
Fractured self
Imagine yourself as a mosaic—each shard a memory, each fragment a story. Identity is fragmented, nonlinear, imperfect. Through collage, artists reassemble past and present into visual diaries, embracing the messiness of memory to reveal a self that is ever-evolving, resilient, and beautifully incomplete.
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Presenting Stephanie Santana, a textile and print artist who draws from African diasporic traditions, weaving together fragments of memory and history to challenge silences and rewrite forgotten stories.
From Tyler Eash’s exploration of identity as an act of resistance, we turn to Stephanie Santana, whose intricate textiles and prints transform threads into voices. Her work feels like a quiet defiance—a way of gathering fragments of history, memory, and myth, and weaving them into something undeniable. In Santana’s hands, the act of making is one of reclamation, a means of finding clarity in the midst of silences and rewriting stories that were never meant to fade.
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