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Lady Capricorn, also known as Samm,
is a young woman with the experience of many lifetimes. As a child,
growing up in Boston, Massachusetts, Samm went through many phases.
She was very shy and entertained herself by drawing pictures, writing
short stories, listening to the radio and watching lots of television.
As a teen Samm was attracted to the spiritual and "new age" lifestyle,
due to her strong sense of intuition.
She
also was very much into the seventies style (being that it was the
seventies), and was (and still is) reluctant to change fashion with
the times, which earned her lots of "attention" from her peers (she
got teased a lot).
In high school was when she decided to become serious
with her art. Samm decided that she didn't want to be one of those
artists that paints things that you cannot recognize or even get
close enough to, to care about. She was very proud of the fact that
she could paint something and make it look almost 3 dimensional
on a canvas or on clothing, which has now become her "trademark
style". That became the focus of her studies and she selected a
junior college that had a program in Commercial Art.
Looking
at Samm, it's easy to believe that she has skillfully mastered the
"art of being an Artist". With her ever changing hairstyles,
creative clothing and abundance of creative energy, Samm is a lady
who is just now finding out what she is meant to do in this lifetime.
She is a strong person who believes that she has many lessons to
learn as well as teach.
After college, Samm realized that she had more creative
energy to burn. She started hanging out with a circle of friends
who were heavy into the underground House music scene. She went
to clubs on a regular basis and as she became more comfortable with
the dancing style and music, she became a regular at some of the
House music nightclubs. Unexpectantly, she was asked to be a featured
dancer at one of the clubs. Terrified, but too shy and broke to
turn the offer down, she took it. Wearing dark sunglasses and opera
gloves, she developed her own stylized look.
Moving
from club to club, Samm improved on her dance technique, and began
to enjoy this new lifestyle. She was featured in different club
promotions, entered dance and lip-sync contests in Boston and Los
Angeles, and even choreographed a few pieces. Samm experienced even
more of a "celebrity" lifestyle with a dance troupe, called the
"Universal Soul Dancers", who opened shows for performers like Kool
and the Gang, Teena Marie, Boy George, Crystal Waters, and various
track acts who visited Boston. Ah, those were the days! But, all
good things must come to an end, or a slow down period.
After a car accident, Samm couldn't dance for a
while and art became her focus once again, this time with a different
slant. She was still interested in doing handpainted clothing, but
quite by accident she stumbled upon some old stick figure drawings
that she had done a few years before, these had potential to be
something BIG!
She began developing verbiage to go with some of
the "disturbing" illustrations that she had begun to create, using
anatomically correct stick figures in different poses dramatizing
the effects of abuse. "The Unconditional Loveline"
was born. She then realized that these illustrations could become
tools to help educate people about abuse, tolerance, violence and
understanding differences. Samm began on the process of writing
a book, featuring her illustrations.
She hopes to reach a broad audience with the undeniable
messages that these illustrations represent, and possibly help change
the way that people think... and maybe even save the world!
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