Wishful Peaceful - Sam Collins
Medium: Acrylic and masonry brush painted on canvasDimensions: 59” x 39”
The young girl, with her gentle focus on the dandelion, becomes a symbol of quiet resilience. Her wish, unspoken yet deeply felt, carries the weight of something greater than herself—a hope for peace in times of war. The use of masonry and acrylic paint enhances this theme. The masonry paint, with its solidity and permanence, reflects the harsh, unyielding nature of conflict, while the acrylic brushstrokes introduce movement, like the fleeting but persistent nature of hope.The black drips in the upper left suggest a world that is not whole, one that is unravelling or in transition. The birds, small yet determined, take flight toward an uncertain future, mirroring the wish carried by the dandelion’s seeds—scattered to the wind, seeking a place to take root.Like the quantum world, where particles exist in multiple states until observed, peace feels like a possibility that flickers in and out of reach. It is not guaranteed, not fixed, but it exists in the space between destruction and renewal, waiting for the right conditions to become reality.At its core, Wishful Peaceful is both a reflection and a quiet plea: that even in the midst of war, the smallest wish for peace has the power to ripple outward, shaping the world in ways unseen.
Collection Overview
In this collection, Sam Art weaves a visual language of wonder, tension, and quiet rebellion—where children perch on flamingos, snails bear the burden of paradox, and sunflowers dare to breach their borders. At first glance, these works are playful, almost dreamlike. But look again, and you’ll find something deeper humming beneath the surface: a meditation on perception, duality, and the fragile nature of peace—both personal and collective.The theme that binds these works is the space between—between conflict and calm, reality and imagination, observation and existence. Through recurring contrasts of monochrome and vivid colour, structured boundaries and organic escape, each painting explores how reality is shaped not just by what is, but by how we see. This idea, borrowed from quantum physics, becomes a metaphor for emotional truth: that peace, hope, and even identity are not fixed destinations, but shimmering possibilities, waiting to collapse into form through attention and intention.
“Wishful Peaceful” and “A Recipe for Peace” ground the series in emotional and geopolitical reality. They acknowledge the weight of conflict, yet suggest that peace is a particle of potential—a fleeting moment that must be chosen again and again.
“Balancing the Dream” and “Probability Cloud” lift the viewer into a more surreal dimension, where childhood becomes the observer that determines reality. These paintings don’t just represent innocence—they reframe it as a powerful, quantum force capable of creating worlds.
“When the Frame Forgot to Hold Us” completes the arc with a subtle rebellion against limitation itself. It questions the very nature of framing—of categorizing, labeling, containing. Here, life pushes out of bounds, not in violence, but in joy.
Together, these works suggest that peace is not just a political ideal, but a perceptual one. That imagination is not the opposite of reality, but a tool for reshaping it. And that within each of us lives a kind of observer—quiet, curious, and capable of collapsing the infinite into something beautifully real.
