The idea of a room of forgotten or missent letters and packages is a useful way to think about my past. 

to whom it may concern

I want to say something about art and commerce, about fame and failure.

paint-by-numbers

An illustrated book set in Chicago bars between 9/11 and The Plague.

 

You don't have to go home,

but you can't stay here.

Through written vignettes, artwork, and family photos the book charts Samarov's emigration from the USSR in 1978.

An illustrated work memoir about Dmitry Samarov's twelve years driving a cab in Chicago and Boston between 1993 and 2012.