For over twenty years, Sam has designed and built residential gardens centred on contemplation, meditation, and the quiet beauty of landscape. Alongside his garden practice, he has developed a studio practice in painting, using watercolour and oil to explore themes of light, shadow, decay, and renewal. Drawn to places where architecture slowly yields to nature, his work reflects an ongoing fascination with time, material transformation, and the poetic relationship between the built and natural worlds.

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During his residency at Space Department, Sam will investigate the spatial concept of the tokonoma. His research explores Shinto ideas of kami, ritual, and the dialogue between organic forms and geometric constraints. Through this inquiry, he seeks to reinterpret the tokonoma for contemporary architecture, imagining it as a space for reflection and poetic visual exchange.

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