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Calligraphic Paintings are paintings of Words. The words and
thoughts themselves are the subject matter. Long ago Sami
was inspired by the beauty of Asian calligraphy in
traditional word poems of Japan, Korea, and China. She at
first tried to paint our western alphabet to look Asian. It
did not work. Spontaneous vertical brush strokes could not
lend their magic to our horizontal linear alphabet.
It was only when Sami invented adaptations of her own,
energized by the many cultural artistic traditions she
admires, that she found her own unique artistic expression,
artistic cultures, offering homage to the San Blas Indians
of Panama, the huichol yarn painters of Mexico, the South
Pacific bark painters, to Austrian artist, Friedensreich,
Hundertwasser, the French Impressionists and the Aboriginal
Dreamtime Painters of Australia.
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“Be
Somebody Magnificent” Acrylic on foam board, freeform
60” x 40” |
“Beautiful
Alternatives” |
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“Yes to
Life” 20” x 28” |
“Cheerfulness, Jubilation, Exhalation” 85” x 48” |
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“Ideas
Flowering into Reality” |
“God,
My Essence, My Origin, My Life Blood, My Home” Scroll
on paper 55” x 85” |
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“Ideas
Flowering into Reality” |
“Each
Painting Teaches Me” Acrylic on foamboard freeform
shape 40” x 80” |
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“I Know, I
Know That I Know, Its OK for Me to Know” Scroll on
Paper 55” x 70” |
“These Two
Hands”
1981, San
Francisco, acrylic on canvas 24” x 30” |
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“Peace in
28 Languages” 30” x 40”
The hands
of God hold the planet and its people |
“For Whom
Do I Paint These Words?”
Acrylic on
Canvas 36” x 46” |
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