
samantha salvat
An artist who blends humour, painting, movement to explore the sacred and absurd. With a paintbrush and a coffee, life's chaos turns into creative brilliance.
MessageSamika is a visual artist from Mexico City who lives in Vancouver Island, BC. Her mediums are painting, photography, digital art, and land art. Her inquiry about human nature inspires her work, fuelled by an embodied approach to contemplative practices and pedagogies.
Statement
Sometimes, I think the universe has a peculiar sense of humor. It gave me an obsession with capturing fleeting moments and then blessed me with enough restless energy to never sit still. So here I am, armed with cameras, paintbrushes, and an uncanny ability to find profound meaning in the way light dances across my morning coffee.
My art practice is what happens when meditation meets mischief. I create videos that turn everyday moments into poetry—even when my neighbour's cat had an existential crisis on my windowsill. Through my lens, ordinary life becomes an extraordinary exploration of who we are and why we do the bizarre things we do. Think of it as anthropological research but with more colour and fewer footnotes.
When I'm not stalking perfect light with my camera or sweet-talking nature into becoming art installations, I'm painting my way through the grand comedy of existence. My work dances between documentation and daydreaming, mixing the sacred with the slightly ridiculous. After all, isn't spiritual awakening just cosmic comedy in slow motion?
Each piece I create is part of my ongoing conversation with consciousness—though sometimes it feels more like a game of charades with the divine. Through mindful practice (and occasional bouts of inspired chaos), I transform my artistic process into a meditation on the beautiful absurdity of being human. My land art installations are love letters to nature, even if they occasionally get rearranged by curious deer or enthusiastic wind gusts.
I believe art is both a mirror and a window. Sometimes, you look in and see yourself, and other times, you look through and spot something entirely unexpected, like your own potential doing cartwheels in the distance. My work invites viewers to join this playful exploration of consciousness, to find the sacred in the silly and the profound in the perfectly ordinary.
Think of my art as a cosmic game of connect-the-dots, where the dots are moments of awareness, and the lines we draw between them create constellations of meaning. Sometimes, the meaning is deep and transformative; other times, it's just a reminder that we're all cosmic beings trying to figure out how to work the coffee maker.
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