Self Portrait (unframed) Photograph - Limited Edition of 6

Impermanence is a concept Santin has worked with over the years. Life is precious precisely because it is fleeting and impermanent. X-ray films have appeared in Santin’s collages since 2008 and her fascination continues in this new body of work. Radiology department equipment such as MRIs, CT scans and X-rays record moments in time deep within the flesh and Santin finds the results almost magical. “An orthopaedic surgeon and friend once told me that MRI and X-ray are just tools, but I see something more poetic than that. The revelations these machines capture, talk of intangible temporal spaces, something beneath the skin’s surface. The films give me the material to digitally mess with that space between being and nothingness”. Moments, similar to a family gathering, holiday snapshot or selfie. This image was included in a South Australian Living Artist festival event in 2021.