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Samuel
Love

 
painter  -  videographer  -  LOOKER  -  THINKER  -  CONVERSATIONALIST




Sam Love is a painter with too many hobbies. Growing up in depressed middle America, he tried his hand at anything hoping it would make life click. Feeling surrounded by sheer nothingness, Love struggled to make something worth his efforts. he had began drawing before he could remember, and playing piano soon after. It wasn’t until his junior year of high school he decided creating art was all he wanted to do. 
    This resolution was guided by Sartre’s Being and Nothingness. 
“Man presents himself at least in this instance as a being who causes nothingness to arise in the world, inasmuch as he himself is affected with non-being to this end.”
    Surrounded by nothingness, Love found solace in being-in-itself. While objects may generate nothingess, they serve as empty containers for significance. Practicing active living, ritual, meditation, and consistent creative pursuit, Love carves meaning out of life. He explores ritual and significance in the face of mundanity. Through dream-like scenes, dimly lit streets, fields in places unknown, Love mythicizes the ordinary we all experience. He walks along the lines between reality and fantasy. All lines converge, nothing leads to everything.

-Abby Sullivan (Dear Roommate)

 




works  (CLICK TO VIEW)

painting
  1. Still life 3
  2. Lover Tied to the Telephone
  3. Don’t Lose Your Head
  4. Foul Beast Reminded of Their Humanity
  5. 50 Miles Over/Silent Destination
  6. Man Cannot Kill God
  7. Man Sheers Delicate Beauty
  8. Diner Scene with an Old Friend
  9. Jack Mackenzie With His Favorite Sculptures
  10. Still Life 2
  11. Man with Machines
  12. Still Life 1
  13. Broken Perceptions, Lost in the Forest
  14. Hunter Among Sheep
  15. Man Devoted to Wealth
  16. Painting for my Grandmother
  17. Man Impaled, Enfatuated with Harpees

film/video
  1. HUNGRY Music Video
  2. Running to Fields
  3. Reflections on Oneself
  4. Infinite Circles
  5. I Fought the Law
  6. In the Wall
  7. Visually Impared
  8. CHIRIT

misc. addt’l. projects
  1. PROGENESIS  Volume 0
  2. PROGENESIS Test
  3. Crazy Night Out 
  4. Homunculus