Welcome to The Quiet Part

This is where we talk about all those things we’re told not to talk about. This is the quiet part out loud, because secrets are cancerous and we’re trying to live our best lives. I write about the creative process, grief, love and polyamory, my queer experience as a nonbinary, femme-presenting person and I write about art as a mode of resistance.

I’m a painter and a writer, a former photographer finding their way back to their love for photography after 7 years as a wedding photographer. My main goal in this life is to create the art I hoped to see in the world. I’m currently working on a book called Field Notes From A Saturn Return. I’ve written several screenplays including Till The Last Drop, a drama feature film about a queer woman navigating addiction and self-destruction.

My intention with this Substack is to hold space for the possibility that you, too, have art and messages and divinity to bring into the world. I am here to workshop those ideas with you, to share my process, and to be in communion with you while we try to bring art into this world that we desperately need. Our most sacred selves are present when we are authentically expressing our experiences and reaching out into the world for connection.

Thank you for being here.

xoxo

sam