Hello, I'm Samson AKJ.

Samson Allal is a Moroccan-American poet, sculptor, painter, and translator. Allal's compositions play with the traditional geometry of Moroccan mosaic tile, the tessellations of Zellij. Each piece strives to embody a sense of infinity. Allal's mark-making combines a fugue-like rhythm of primal symbols reminiscent of North African hieroglyphs with the gestural, dynamic elemental music found in Abstract Expressionism, creating a transatlantic, tidal poetics. Allal's works can be realized as both representational and abstract, in that they invite the viewer into the essence, the being, of a particular scene, landscape, or person. Allal's images are voyages, verses, pathways, carvings, which reveal the stories, histories, mythologies, choirs of meaning, marks of time, that migrate across the North Atlantic - from Africa to the Americas, like flocks in rhythms of relation: a New World remix. Allal's work has and will be shown at Wesleyan University, Brown University, The Nanyang School of Art, and other institutions. Allal's recreation of the Hymn to Ra, the hieroglyph Stella of King Inteff II at the Met Museum, can be found at Poetry Foundation.