Making art is about about discovery, connections

and communication. My work consists of analogies about the

complexity, ambiguity and

poetry of life.

Francesca Samsel

My work is about man’s impact on nature and nature’s impact on man.

I am a collector, a collector of forms, textures, and patterns from nature and machinery. I am driven by the thrill of discovery. My process involves research, selection, sorting and documentation. I combine long walks with time in science and engineering libraries, looking for cross category correlations.

Scientists order the world by dividing it into categories - genus and species. I dig through the stacks in reference libraries, collecting the curious. Then I put them in a blender.  Mix them up and reassemble them by  different common factors - function, source, visual similarity or emotive quality.