Life is art and so are we.
Sam Chonko was born in Ohio in 1991 but has been residing on the Olympic Peninsula for the last decade. It is near the town of Port Townsend where she lives a quiet life nestled in the woods near Chimacum creek where the Salmon pass through. She is a professional gardener and landscape artist coming from a background in permaculture and herbalism. Devoted to the beauty and mystery of nature she gathers endless inspiration from forming a relationship to her environment. She has always been driven by the spirit of play and creativity and believes that we are art, just by simply being who we are in this world. She is a multidisciplinary expressionist who believes in following her whims and the spontaneity of inspiration. She has never been a perfectionist but believes in quality over quantity.
Her work can be found in wide range of explorations and mediums, whether it be ceramics or textile based, photography, performance and music, digital collage or video. For her the creative process is more important than the end result. She enjoys the reuse or re-imagining of materials and objects that are often acquired for free. She believes the world is innately abundant and that finding and creating beauty is all about perspective.