Dani Samson
Los Angeles, California
Contemporary mixed media painter and collage maker, repurposing scraps and found material to create abstractions of everyday life.
MessageCollection: What Holds Us
What Holds Us reflects on care, presence, and compassion as ongoing practices shaped throughout the ebb and flow, the effort and ease, of daily life. Drawing from domestic space, personal relationships, and recurring ritual, the works explore how emotional and spiritual stability is cultivated through patience, trust, and commitment. Though visually soft and open, the pieces are constructed through labor-intensive processes such as stitching, papermaking, printmaking, animation, and collage.
Across layered surfaces and intimate imagery, What Holds Us considers the quiet forces that bind and support us: relationships, routines, and reverence for life's simple, everyday moments. Together, the works invite viewers into a contemplative space that honors both making and witnessing, and the subtle ways meaning is built, tended, and held over time.
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