Conceptual nominee

How to Survive Earth compounds my long and on-going history with mental illness issues, life experiences from the various places around the world I’ve lived and general interests that help aid in my own survival. My circumstances, whether it be locality or severity of illness, has changed over past decades but underlying constants remain. I am keenly aware of their shape shifting and their ability to continually surprise and catch me unaware. The work is concurrently playful and incisive, witty and sad, personal and universal. By examining my own personal condition of survival, I conflate the surviving condition of those around me. This visual and literary catalogue investigates survival of the modern world in which we live.

Sam Miller Gott is currently an American based artist. She received her B.F.A in photography at Emporia State University in America where she studied under Larry Schwarm. After completing university, she immigrated to South Korea. For the next 8 years she moved between South Korea, Japan and England which greatly influences her work. She is currently completing her M.F.A. at Wichita State University in America.