Eudes de Santana: When the Fat Years End

There’s something about work that exists between disciplines—not quite art, not quite design, just someone thinking through materials and time. Eudes de Santana does that. His pieces sit in that space where the conceptual weight is real but nothing feels labored. You look at them and something lands that wasn’t obvious at first glance. The title here—all that German phrasing about lean years—suggests a shift, a threshold, maybe a period where resources thinned out and something different had to be made from what was left. I’m drawn to artists who work through constraint rather than around it.