WISH YOU WERE NEAR

Forthcoming Friday the 13th of November 2026

Release Show Saturday the 14th of November 6pm at YES Space Gallery.

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WISH YOU WERE NEAR. photo digital collage cover by margo santiago in chicago

28 pages of delights on love, desire and deliciousness. WISH YOU WERE NEAR calls back to myself from the last ten years of making art through collage, poetry, photographs, collected knick knacks and my beloveds.

in the meantime,

painting of a window with a deep orange brick outline and a grey windowsill leads to a red carpet on wood floors with beige and grey smudge walls with art, shelved, coat hooks with bags and shoes and white cabinets. clips line the right and left side 
Make yourself at home.   2023
digital photo artist collage with different body parts of the same person holding and surrounded by flowers covering her face and eyes. there is light coming from the left side.
watercolor from the viewpoint of the corner bar seat inside 'Good Thanks' cafe in NYC. there are squiggly green walls, a u-shaped bar, pink nooks and a sign. 
‘Good Thanks” Cafe NYC   2025
black and white photo of a newborn baby arms outsretched and curled toes attached to the placenta sitting to the right surrounded by a slew of ferns and flowers. there is a hand reaching from left with a heart tattoo by their thumb. 
her name is flower.   2022
happy birthday.   2024
four deer stand at varying points following the line of the edge of tall brown grass before is becomes the tree line swooping to the right. there are purple bushy tailed flowers and green bushes. we are near Sea Ranch in California.
black frame with white mat holding artist self-portrait with fern leaves collage like wings and flowers both sealed onto the image with wax. the two candles used are sealed with their own wax on the right and bottom side. 
this early in the morning.   2024
romantic self-portrait   2023
a red backdrop with a doiley half curtain sit behind a heart shaped water color backdrop reading 'KISSING BOOTH' there are water color hearts plus pink and yellow flowers with stems.
a start covered brown paper backdrop with a paper moon and stars cuts off at the bottom into a splattered cloth. margo santiago sits legs outstretched in a short newspaper dress holding flowers up to her noses in deep inhale. she wears glasses. 
Watercolor backdrop for CLUB QPID.   2025
self-portrait.    2021
sel-portrait of margo santiago sitting in a backyard with grass and a tree in a garden bed sitting on a blanket covering their face with flowers as they inhale. shoulders are hunched up in a purple sating shirt and pink bandana.

hi im margo (she/they) an intimate artist with a goal to document and archive people; to create a record of goodness. I want people to feel seen and I hope the work i create allows people to feel understood, connected, & joyous amongst all the the feelings that inhabit us.

we should be friends!

i think this was the last time i was happy in that apartment. i think it was the last time i liked that apartment. i think this was the last time it felt like my home. 2024 • i wish i knew what i was listening to & i wonder if margo with sh
i literally can’t think of any words good enough to satisfy the delicate harmony of rainn at 4:23 in the morning picking yellow flowers frolicking through the tall grass as the sun sweeps over us. just know i’m sweatin’ 🥵 inspir
that’s my girl! happy anniversary to me + binx 💕 shout out to her for walking up to me then following me (fucking stalker) until i picked her up and carried her around chicago for 20 minutes. shout out to the babies she had three weeks later
SURPRISE 🥳 yall thought i was in iceland for fun? i mean i was but first and foremost i had to capture the magic of Vero’s lovingly planned proposal to Haley 💜 these two are a pair of the earths loveliest creatures and i am honored to have be