Rendered in black gesso and colored pencil on paper, "Hi, Hi" presents a charged surface where matte darkness becomes the ground from which hesitant, luminous marks emerge. Samantha Roth works against the expected logic of drawing by inverting the conventional relationship between light and field, allowing colored pencil lines to carry an almost phosphorescent quality against the dense, absorbed black beneath them. The result is a work that feels simultaneously intimate and slightly unresolved, as though caught in the act of reaching toward something just out of frame. Roth's practice is rooted in the emotional grammar of everyday communication, and the title's doubled greeting suggests both warmth and a kind of nervous repetition, the way a word spoken twice can shift from greeting to anxiety without changing its syllables. Her compositions often occupy a space between figuration and pure mark, where gesture carries psychological weight without resolving into clear narrative. In "Hi, Hi," that tension is particularly acute, with each colored line functioning less as description than as tone, more akin to the timbre of a voice than the outline of a form. At 57.1 by 38.1 centimeters, the work is intimate in scale, suited to close, sustained looking rather than commanding a room from a distance. Currently held with Public Gallery, it is signed by the artist and offered unframed, allowing the collector to consider presentation as an active part of acquiring the piece. For those drawn to works that sit at the intersection of drawing and emotional candor, "Hi, Hi" represents a quietly arresting example of Roth's distinctive hand.