[4][6] He began focusing on his art full-time following the deaths of close family members and his retirement from the Scotch Plains Police Department.
Sampson makes sculptures from found objects, such as glass cabinet knobs, sticks, strings, screws, and wood chips.
His work differs from these artists, as most create murals in Latin American neighborhoods and these street-side, altar-like assemblages of objects are meant to last through only a brief public-display period of remembrance and grief.
[4][1] Alongside other Newark-based artists, Sampson has spoken out against the recent, ongoing gentrification taking place in Newark, NJ.
[11] 2019 participation at the International Society of Biourbanism, summer School, Artena (Rome) Italy as a speaker, 2020 Residency in Martha's Vineyard in Union Chapel, in conjunction with the Mariposa Museum, sponsored by the Vineyard Trust Sampson was turned into a cartoon, appearing as himself in the PBS Kids animated series Arthur, helping George with a school art project.