Adaptation

Adaptation was created while Samour was a Scholar-in-Residence at the Tufts European Center in Talloires, France. The drawings are based on direct observation of the exterior and interior structures of the plants of the Haute Savoie region as well as the artist’s visual interpretations of how these plants are changing and have the potential for extinction due to global warming. Drawn with a quill pen, they reference early natural history illustration. In these hybrids, the organic is over-laid and interchangeable with the technological and address some of the following questions: What are the visual and metaphorical overlays between optical and copper wires used in digital communication, and the function of the root hairs of a plant? What does the function of the bee to the flower and the human to digital transmission have in common in regard to regeneration and multiplicity? How does global warming cause plants and animals to adapt and what might that look like?