
Thesaurus of Mythologies
Sam Samore
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These two images live in the territory of the half-seen, where blur becomes its own kind of language. The first floods the frame with fevered magentas and pinks, abstract forms dissolving into one another like a memory recalled through heat or longing—nothing holds its edge, and that refusal to resolve feels almost wilful, as though the image is protecting whatever it depicts. The second cools the palette into shadow, a pale luminous shape stretched across darkness, soft as breath fogging glass, with a single warm point of light glowing somewhere in the gloom like a held thought. Together, under the title Thesaurus of Mythologies, they suggest that myth is not a thing seen clearly but a thing remembered imperfectly - that what we make sacred we also blur, smoothing the specific into the symbolic. There is intimacy here, and obscurity as a form of reverence: the sense that some images ask not to be looked at but to be felt at the edge of vision, where the body becomes colour, the figure becomes suggestion, and meaning gathers precisely in what the lens refuses to let us know.
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Sam Samore
THESAURUS OF MYTHOLOGIES
(Incomplete( (#10) 2026
17 x 30 inch image size
Archival pigments on rag paper
Edition 3/6, 1 AP
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Sam Samore
THESAURUS OF MYTHOLOGIES
(Incomplete( (#01) 2026
17 x 30 inch image size
Archival pigments on rag paper
Edition 3/6, 1 AP

