Traces of Stillness I Painting

Guided by an artistic practice that is both intuitive and tactile, Samimi is always searching for the spiritual essence of the natural world, seeing its capacity for insight on concepts of space, time and impermanence. He seeks to awaken such energies within the materials he uses, informed by making links between seemingly disparate genealogies and sources. His artworks erase boundaries between form and matter--suggesting that these differences that are often merely surface deep--and embrace a fluid conception of identity that reveals underlying connections; it is a message which is poignantly human: through these connections, we share the same ancestors, and we share the same home.