Max Dana moves fluidly across mediums, working across drawing, painting, photography, collage, and digital creation. Whether on paper, canvas, unexpected surfaces, or within emerging digital environments, her practice unfolds in a constant dialogue between material, memory, and imagination.
From early graffiti to recent digital explorations, each piece emerges from new encounters between hand, matter, and technology. She remains open to experimentation, where traditional gestures and contemporary tools quietly coexist.
Ink, Pen & Marker on Paper + Digital Works
Max Dana’s drawings form the intimate core of her creative universe. Using ink and pen on paper, as well as digital media, precise yet fluid lines give birth to forms that emerge, transform, and quietly come alive.
In these black and white compositions, sometimes touched with subtle accents of color, the World of Sama reveals itself: drifting beings, organic shapes in motion, silent constellations, fragile architectures, and hidden depths, all coexisting within a universe both cosmic and intimate.
Beyond form, these drawings carry the quiet values that run through all of Max Dana’s work: protection, empathy, connection, and care for the vulnerable.
They are the original fragments from which the World of Sama continues to grow.
Organic Cosmic Garden
Tree of Life Equilibrium
Guardian Trio
Words Wield Power
Acrylic, Marker & Mixed Techniques
Painting allows Max Dana to explore color with greater freedom. Through acrylic paint, marker pens, and mixed techniques, the World of Sama expands beyond black and white into vibrant, spontaneous compositions where movement and imagination take center stage.
Recurring figures, watchful eyes, and organic forms emerge from layered colors, sometimes playful, sometimes enigmatic. Though each work follows its own path, all remain connected to the same universe of curiosity, empathy, and quiet observation.
These paintings offer another doorway into the World of Sama, where color becomes a language for expressing what words alone cannot convey.
Red Edition
Burst of Color
First Stroke
Marker pen + acrylic paint
Pen & Marker on Silver Prints
Trouville Samazed!
Trouville-sur-Mer lies on the English Channel in Normandy, separated from Deauville by the quiet estuary of the Touques.
Max Dana enjoys walking along its seafront, particularly in the off-season. When the beach empties and the sky grows heavy with shifting greys, the place transforms.
Trouville Plage becomes Samazed: photographs where Max draws or paints the Sama directly onto the image, softly blending reality with their subtle presence.
This practice has since expanded into other Samazed series, where the invisible world gently appears within the visible one.
Seaside Wood Boardwalk
Cabines & Sama
Urban Art & Pop Culture
Rooted in the graffiti and hip-hop scenes of the 1980s, Max Dana's urban practice began with da-eYe on the walls of Paris and La Défense. Rather than defining herself as a traditional street artist, she has always embraced the spirit of that movement: its freedom, irreverence, independence from institutions, and the ephemeral nature of graffiti itself.
Today, this practice has grown far beyond the street. da-eYe and her other figures live across multiple forms, from stickers and clothing to objects and digital works, carrying a language of freedom, irony, and quiet resistance.
Graffiti Decay
Asphalt Gaze
Pen Drawing on Photographs & Collage
Max Dana draws and paints directly onto photographs, blending ink, pen, and collage to create hybrid works where reality and the World of Sama meet.
On portraits and everyday scenes, she introduces floating Sama beings and symbolic forms that watch, accompany, or subtly disrupt the image. These interventions transform photography into a layered surface where reality opens onto the World of Sama.
Famous faces, ordinary moments, or historical references become quiet doorways through which the Sama emerge, gently present, observant, or protective.
Playful yet contemplative, these works explore presence, care, and the invisible threads that connect what is seen and what is felt.
