Land of Milk and Honey: Stuck

In Land of Milk and Honey: Stuck, Samour cuts acrylic Mother of Pearl into the shapes of Israel, the Palestinian territories, and encroaching settlements. The cartographic shapes are then mirrored and embedded into sheets of over-beaten Abaca paper pulp that has been pigmented to elicit honey. The various territories are treated as biological specimens, creating a tension between stasis and potentiality, the search for the promised land; the land of ‘milk and honey’. This re-examination of land as a malleable, movable, biological and political construct forms a visual vocabulary suggestive of Habitat Fragmentation (the effects of geographic fragmentation on biologic diversity); flagella (the means of movement for microscopic organisms); plant metamorphosis; root structures; and cell division.