sammy
Consani
A B O U T S A M M Y
BE HERE. BE WILDER
I am an artist, a writer, adventurer, & an advocate for feeling every emotion, discovering how to be present in our bodies, and choosing in every new moment to be honest, brave, just a bit messy, and a whole lot wilder.
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I’m a sucker for good food, live music, traveling the world and constantly exploring our innermost landscapes of self through reading, journaling, & meditating. I’m currently living in Los Angeles and slowly uncovering the delicate balance of self through: creating, playing, traveling and writing.
TRAVEL
I got struck by the travel bug when i was just a kid when my mom planned family trips every summer. Since then I've always had the itch to get out and explore the world. In travel i discovered my love for photography, trying new foods, and this beautiful opportunity to come home with a whole new perspective on life.
CREATE
Since I was young, I knew that making art was everything I ever wanted. It started with photography, i discovered illustrations were a secondary way to express my emotions and painting was my way of releasing what is unconscious inside of me. They have all been this perfect outlet for everything cool, and scary and colorful, hopeful and sad and child-like boiling inside of me.
PLAY
Play is a word we’ve known since tag, and cards, and marco polo and hide & seek. Then we knew it as sports, and we got old enough to potentially forget it all together. Lately i’ve been considering play as juggling and skateboarding, and surfing and being silly in a grocery store or learning absolutely anything new.
take messy action
"Be Here, Be Wilder" was a life motto I had in my head for a while. A reminder to be present. And in being present, decide to be more wild. Decide to be brave, free, messy, uncontrolled and daring. The idea was to be so damn present that your fears simply fade away. And your actions come from your truest desires. They are free, uninhibited, without control. Simply, wilder.
I think to be wilder, is to be honest. The kind of honesty that scares you. The kind of honesty that feels like genuine acceptance. And perhaps the kind of honesty that defies social norms, defies your parents, and defies the parts of yourself you’ve been aching to let go of.
To be wilder is to be constantly embracing the truths you discover about yourself, the desires, the wishes, the curiosities and allow yourself to hear them. Dare yourself to act on them, and then bask in the guilt free feeling of your whole heart lighting up. Chase them down with your entire heart, your little-kid soul, and your wild-like human self.
I think so much of life isn’t just about creating ourselves within this world but rather allowing what it is we love, what it is that excites us, inspires us, makes us happy or full of life and to let it shine through. Push ourselves to discover those things, accept them, and run towards them regardless of where the rest of the world is running off to.
I think to be wilder is what we we’re all after. We get so far along into life, and sooner or later it hits us- that somehow the goal is no longer to become more of anything other than to become more of ourselves. And in all this attempt of daring to be true to ourselves, I call it “wilder” and it’s absolutely intoxicating.