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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