https://www.porousstudio.art/about daily 0.75 2026-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/c51dd0f6-480b-4d7b-b94b-f2d20ce3044c/whenbodiesbecomegardensI.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/bbedd963-6454-4f9b-96ae-e084e0c2c970/IMG_7712.JPG https://www.porousstudio.art/contact daily 0.75 2026-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/8b829e92-cda5-499a-b4a8-bb196183e3bf/IMG_3146.jpg https://www.porousstudio.art/painting-surface-work daily 0.75 2026-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/f68fd098-c49f-4ad3-8f72-8073768330f6/When+Bodies+become+Gardens+1+small.jpg Painting & Surface Work "When Bodies Become Gardens I" The body emerges as a shifting landscape, where human and vegetal forms blur. Growth becomes a condition of transformation, revealing the body as something porous, unfinished, and continually in relation to its surroundings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/e25ef212-58ac-498b-9897-a65abd598345/Samika+bodies+as+biomes+II.jpg Painting & Surface Work "When Bodies Become Biome III" The body is approached as an ecosystem rather than an isolated form. Human and more-than-human life intersect, unsettling the boundary between organism and environment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/75b7b967-93f8-4894-9221-8d9af3aab6d2/when+bodies+become+gardens+II+smaller.jpg Painting & Surface Work "When Bodies Become Gardens II" Overlapping leaves, branches, and organic shapes partially obscure the figure. The body appears to grow through its surroundings, resisting a fixed distinction between self and landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/07a94827-b802-4e40-a5d6-3e6ca29bd9c8/SamikaShadow.jpg Painting & Surface Work "When Bodies Become Shadow" Figures gather in a dark, forest-like space, emerging and dissolving into the surrounding atmosphere. Shadow becomes a threshold where bodies, memory, and uncertainty meet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/a70fd86c-1af7-474a-aade-171648aa51cd/Samikawhose+dream%3F.jpg Painting & Surface Work "When Bodies Become Entangled" Pale, fragmented figures move through an ambiguous domestic or architectural space. Their gestures suggest the complex negotiations of care and connection and the invisible structures that shape our relationships. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/1aa52d0d-86c0-4c11-831c-f1cc0ef95262/SamikaReflecting2022.jpg Painting & Surface Work "When the Body Becomes Shelter" A seated figure folds inward within a loosely constructed interior. The body becomes both refuge and enclosure, holding the tension between the need for protection and the possibility of exposure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/5d9af975-a22e-4fc5-bcec-3411b032f540/samikaBalance2023.jpg Painting & Surface Work "When the Body Becomes Balance" A luminous figure stands within a deep blue field, suspended between darkness and light. Balance appears not as stillness, but as an ongoing negotiation with uncertainty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/2762665d-1689-4f87-a972-7e8170bef7ce/Samika+Abstract+Landscape.jpg Painting & Surface Work "Landscape as Shelter" A meditation on landscape as a source of protection, refuge, and belonging. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/9757867e-0eb0-4aac-bd8c-4c4d087b74e8/Samika+Meditation.jpg Painting & Surface Work "When Bodies Becomes Space" Two seated figures inhabit an expansive, layered environment. Their presence creates space for stillness, contemplation, and the experience of being held within a larger field. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/a4197fea-e478-4ac7-afd9-fcbe1a017a5d/Samika+Greenwoman+upsidedown+2023.jpg Painting & Surface Work "When the Body Becomes Upside Down" An inverted green figure stretches across a blue landscape, surrounded by smaller human figures. The painting disrupts familiar orientations of body and space, suggesting a world experienced through movement, play, and transformation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/7ddce285-bcdd-42ce-978e-597c3540b791/Bodies+as+Biomes+3+.jpg Painting & Surface Work "When Landscape Becomes Shelter" A luminous central figure is surrounded by a dense gathering of bodies and vertical forms. The painting explores collective presence as a form of shelter and belonging. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/6ac84bb6-ebfc-4eba-a407-3973e963315e/Samikabody+as+biome+I.jpg Painting & Surface Work "When the Body becomes Biome II" A solitary figure stands within a dense, textured environment of trees and earth. The body becomes inseparable from the landscape, suggesting an ecology shaped by memory, sensation, and presence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/061b4c5f-7836-4410-a036-3dc99dee32ac/IMG_5577.jpeg Painting & Surface Work "When the Body becomes Resistance" Fragments of vivid orange, red, turquoise, and violet collide across the surface. The painting explores resistance as a disruptive force, in which the body is felt through movement, tension, and the refusal of fixed form. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/c993d199-5ba2-49b0-ad95-6d45918edbe5/nest.jpeg Painting & Surface Work "When the Body becomes Nest" An intense orange, organic form emerges from a field of fragmented colour and gesture. The painting evokes the nest as a site of making and holding, where protection and growth remain in constant tension. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/245f7978-e65b-4719-aae5-60e6f8f1e111/IMG_5579.jpeg Painting & Surface Work "When the Body becomes Growth" Vertical gestures and luminous orange forms gather across the canvas, suggesting bodies or vegetal structures emerging. Growth appears as an unstable, collective movement rather than a fixed destination. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/714b10c7-b45b-4d6c-8272-30ceabff4a0f/blue+triangular+light+.jpg Painting & Surface Work "When the Body becomes Light" A deep blue field opens around a subtle triangular illumination. The painting treats light as an embodied experience of presence, perception, and the possibility of transformation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/90801b0f-4083-4618-aae3-6de4a78ffdb9/contemplating.jpg Painting & Surface Work "When the Body becomes Space II" Two seated figures face each other in a blue, atmospheric setting. Their quiet encounter creates a space for attention, relation, and shared stillness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/6b0ab67b-02a9-4ad1-b00a-831a728d7dba/COSMIC+EGG.jpg Painting & Surface Work "When Body becomes Origin" An oval form floats within a deep blue field, hovering between egg, seed, and primordial body. The painting holds origin as a moment of suspended possibility, before form fully emerges. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/7ea9bc04-f8be-429a-80af-bf6ab4cb7b84/Samika_Samantha_fried+small+file.jpeg Painting & Surface Work "Fried" A drawing from the Whose Dream? series that uses humour and the everyday to examine the body within domestic life. The work considers how ordinary routines can reveal the tensions between care, labour, and expectation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/13ae6a01-9249-4072-a5c1-517348768629/Samika_Samantha_hang+in+there.jpeg Painting & Surface Work "Hang in there" A drawing from the Whose Dream? series that uses humour and the body to reflect on the effort of holding things together. It gestures toward the absurdity and resilience of everyday domestic life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/59aee6bd-84aa-4c2e-a058-4d5603e761d7/Samika_Samantha_by+the+balls.jpeg Painting & Surface Work "By the Balls" A drawing that brings the body and domestic objects into an awkward, humorous encounter. The work uses bodily vulnerability and absurdity to question the expectations and power structures embedded in everyday life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/4f6cd79b-a080-413e-a081-9848626d779d/Samika_Samantha_what%27s+for+dinner.jpeg Painting & Surface Work "What's for Dinner" A drawing that turns the familiar ritual of preparing a meal into a scene of bodily entanglement. The work examines domestic labour, care, and the often-unseen gestures that sustain everyday life. https://www.porousstudio.art/retreats daily 0.75 2026-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/4dc6a166-a94a-4367-9bda-ec138811a9d8/57e78590-9dea-4d30-b441-443502596651.jpg Retreats mandala making in Tantra retreat, Rangoli activity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/753be928-1781-4a5c-8503-05251d325994/709ede28-1a4f-42b7-8f87-abe1910b2391+2.jpg Retreats Group of people standing and sitting around a sand mandala with flowers and candles, on a beach at dusk, with tropical trees and a thatched roof hut in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/49c1d80c-5798-4d62-9efa-5bddf677ad6e/IMG_3127.jpeg Retreats meditation retreat sunset https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/46e380bb-55b2-4fdf-a057-c2e0c14801f8/retreat+2.jpg Retreats retreat expressive arts, women sharing their experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/ceeb6436-83e3-4da9-83a6-d8f595aa82d2/retreat+students1.jpg Retreats A group of people sitting around a large table doing creative work, in a room with nature-inspired decor, including wood and plant elements, engaged in a meeting or workshop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/db32447e-8fca-4d1c-a260-2b7f1089befa/IMG_9310.jpeg Retreats therapy retreat at the beach, rguided relaxation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/181e54a0-3b9d-4e20-a685-cb2a7906912b/IMG_3903.JPG Retreats group reflection on process paintings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/53036805-6aa6-40a5-918e-c49a606fdf9c/IMG_7363.JPG Retreats drawing class student working with leaves https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/7d8566bb-10c2-410d-9e14-963a33ce5ba9/IMG_7371.JPG Retreats Sketchbook with line drawings of leaves on left and right pages, accompanied by real green and brown leaves attached to the pages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/93aafa63-859f-4ec3-a0b5-6eaf44ea58af/course+power+staff.jpg Retreats Two women sitting on the floor and crafting a decorative tree using branches, leaves, and flowers. One woman is holding a branch with leaves, and the other is reaching for flowers on a tray. There are crafting supplies scattered on the floor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/58b88470-990a-42df-8708-8ce58f3a9946/course+geometric+patterns.jpg Retreats yantra workshop students working in a yantra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/70927f03-1093-4924-babd-616709d02ec8/retreat+3.jpg Retreats Group of women participating in a painting expressive arts activity at a workshop, with colorful abstract artwork on the tables. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/d5d231f0-1a5c-4997-bef2-5ef33d218dea/IMG_7878.JPG Retreats sharing expressive arts activity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/698579e1-1434-4f78-880f-8e1e98811e6c/IMG_7876.JPG Retreats woman enjoying creations of mandalas in plasticine in an expressive arts class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/9f0ac067-3dbb-4455-8103-f949c9860768/course+power+staff+1.jpg Retreats power staff making workshop summmer solstice led activity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/209c2716-6f2c-499c-a09d-ab29073a05aa/IMG_7510.JPG Retreats drawing as process https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/4d7ab590-2dfd-487c-a8e5-72937f05e872/IMG_4831.JPG Retreats drawing class demostration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/26f89870-749f-471a-803c-fbdd76b12b88/IMG_4885.JPG Retreats drawing class https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/d345545f-2171-4803-bbac-41f2448dbf94/IMG_7828.JPG Retreats teaching in Ixtapa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/f7cb317e-afb7-4eaf-934d-2163ca873b00/IMG_7698.JPG Retreats Teaching in Retreat https://www.porousstudio.art/about-the-facilitator daily 0.75 2026-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/5249dea0-4848-4d80-877a-f9fe8b062a3b/group+retreat https://www.porousstudio.art/new-page daily 0.75 2026-06-02 https://www.porousstudio.art/store daily 0.75 2026-04-22 https://www.porousstudio.art/store/p/the-echo-vase-w67a8 monthly 0.5 2026-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/413c8c3b-d6c0-4a0e-9c95-28cdaf250497/Being+I+.jpg Store - Being I - Being I .jpg https://www.porousstudio.art/store/p/the-ember-vessel-68clk monthly 0.5 2026-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/03be9ed7-386e-463a-832e-092f5e441a18/Navigating+the+Subconscious+print.jpg Store - Navigating the subconscious - Navigating the Subconscious print.jpg https://www.porousstudio.art/store/p/the-horizon-vase-redkl monthly 0.5 2026-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/f0bdd39e-b23e-44a8-bc52-cacbefa18c8b/Under+the+Tree+print.jpg Store - Under the Tree - Under the Tree print.jpg https://www.porousstudio.art/installations-experiences daily 1.0 2026-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/401f7419-20ae-40a4-92ba-cb43bff4d3ea/install+view+layers.jpg Installations & Experiences https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/9eb18dd9-e5d2-4f3b-9c58-389dfb6f183d/88f2afe8-e644-4852-8508-3b706d882c9f.jpg Installations & Experiences https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/5965c829-b346-401b-8b87-e2b1f2ab730a/IMG_5864.jpg Installations & Experiences https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/697bd8460e80850dc6b2d0f4/ecf29fef-cbcd-4986-89b9-932f7462b84a/IMG_8538.jpeg Installations & Experiences https://www.porousstudio.art/installations-experiences/participatory-installation-art monthly 0.5 2026-02-22 https://www.porousstudio.art/installations-experiences/v/video-install monthly 0.5 2026-02-25 https://www.porousstudio.art/installations-experiences/v/tips-for-better-focus-cc7rp-b5er8 monthly 0.5 2026-02-25 https://www.porousstudio.art/installations-experiences/v/installationview monthly 0.5 2026-02-25 https://www.porousstudio.art/installations-experiences/v/embodied-landscapes-ii monthly 0.5 2026-02-25