Caia Sampaio grew up in the country side of Brazil, in a mining town with a hilly landscape and Baroque churches. Back in the hometown mischievous kids were accused of "doing art". Taking the blame to heart Caia graduated in Sculpture from the Fine Arts School at Minas Gerais Federal University in 2004.

Moving to New York city the following year, it took time to learn the language, to get used to the flat landscape and its endless towers. From a small apartment in Astoria, the drawings and prints started as little attempts to retrace her path from New York back to the hills of her childhood, revisiting 'places' back and forth, associating each pattern to a memory, an experience, creating a new alphabet and a personal landscape.

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