On the cultural blog Trendbeheer, Samson says: "It seems that we all long for a life in untouched nature, while our worldwide growing prosperity is mainly driven by consumption, innovation and globalization.

Samson received advice on the myrmecotrophy between ant and plant species from former horticulturalist Art Vogel.

[6] Just before the Dutch general elections of 2012, Samson created an art work together with the neoliberal politician Halbe Zijlstra (VVD), who was State Secretary of Education, Culture and Science at the time.

Using the world of wild flora as a metaphor, the two men advocated an art climate in which artists would not make themselves dependent upon resources that could be influenced by politics.

[13] In 2011, Samson produced a tabloid in collaboration with Frits Bolkestein, a retired prominent liberal politician.

[14] The paper presented the documentation of a ‘pamper day’ to which Bolkestein was treated by the artist in Rotterdam’s museum district.

[16] In 2011, the Wiarda Beckman Foundation – the scientific bureau of the Dutch labour party – invited Samson to publish works of art in their monthly magazine Socialism & Democracy.

[17] In 2008, Samson asked hundreds of schoolboys and schoolgirls to compose letters in which he would cancel his membership of the PVDA (the Dutch labour party).

[18] In 2011, Samson was asked by the Wiardi Beckman Foundation to publish a number of works of art in the monthly magazine 'Socialism & Democracy'.