Eric Santoscoy-McKillip

Eric Santoscoy-Mckillip contemplates memory, place, and identity in a telescopic way. Santoscoy-Mckillip's stuccoed pieces are clusters of signifiers, such as a serape, a rock formation, or abstractions of NASA space photographs that inspire him. The colors in the work reflect those ubiquitous on the Southern border: a saddle blanket, neon flake flowers, and the garden's soil he remembers from his grandmother's house. The work includes a black sun and moon, referencing the terracotta ones he had in his childhood bedroom but also as a reference to the daily value that both of those celestial objects hold over our lives.