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A ocean big enough to swallow all fact and fable, a mirror to our emotional landscape, both a protector and source of danger.

Living and working in San Juan, Armig Santos’ paintings often feel epistolary in their lyricism and content - letters from the frontline of his intuition. The centerpiece of Armig’s new show at Half Gallery is a large boat painting inspired by the Cerro Maravilla murders of 1978. In late July of that year, two Puerto Rican pro-independence activists were ambushed and killed by police who later tried to justify their actions by categorizing these young men as …