Chayse Sampy’s artistic practice utilizes mixed-media to explore the temporal flexibility inherent in Afro-diasporic metaphysics. Her figurative narratives exist between time in a transitory space of blue coolness. She throws bodies into relation with each other, creating posthumous creatures that prompt introspection into connectedness, hybridity, possibility, and a multidimensional approach to being.

These pieces function as assemblages of mutating memory, facilitating a dialogue between the multiplicity of history, materials, and beings. Through found, familial, and archival images, Sampy obsessively visualizes moments of connection that leave space for new understandings and imaginings in an ever-unfolding ‘now.’ Operating across mediums, she collages marks, stains, images, and fabric in an effort to capture the resourcefulness, adaptability, and complexity of the Black experience. There is a survival in the way she makes that calls forth a tradition of fugitive creativity.