SAMARITUAL is a living cultural ecology building architectures of agencY

It begins with environment. The worlds we move through shape how we perceive and who we become. I work them as material, all of them, including the ones built to contain.

Future Ancestors artwork exploring adornments and identity within Quantum Craft.

Body, land, fiber, dust. The hand knows before the mind. Every surface keeps what touched it.

Generative Future Ancestors image exploring planetary movement and cosmological memory.
Generative Future Ancestors image exploring planetary movement and cosmological memory.

MATERIAL ENVIRONMENT

Matter as Memory

Future Ancestors artwork exploring adornments and identity within Quantum Craft.

SPATIAL ENVIRONMENT

Architecture as Intelligence

Close-up of a large, reddish-orange planet against a backdrop of stars and space.

The room composes whoever enters it. Scenography as a way of arranging perception..

PERSONAL ENVIRONMENT

Future Ancestors artwork exploring adornments and identity within Quantum Craft.

The Body as Archive

'All conditions are material'

'All conditions are material'

Generative Future Ancestors mark-making exploring material-digital entanglement.

Memory and nerve. The self is permeable, and workable, carried through lineage, ritual, migration, and survival.

SYNTHETIC ENVIRONMENT

Future Ancestors artwork exploring adornments and identity within Quantum Craft.
Generative Future Ancestors image exploring planetary movement and cosmological memory.

Data and algorithm as sediment

Artificial Intelligence are biased synthetic cognitive environments They inherit power before intelligence.

ETYMOLOGY

samaritual
· sa·mar·rit·u·al · noun

samar (Arabic, سَمَر): talk kept after dark; company and storytelling under the moon.

ritual: a repeated act that remakes the one who performs it.

Ritual self-portrait within the Future Ancestors series examining identity and concealment.

Samar: also the one who keeps the gathering.

I am a Beirut-born scenographer, artist-theorist and ancestral futurist. I work through craft, ritual, and emergent technologies as living materials from Beirut and Brooklyn. I developed Quantum Craft™, , an entangled protocol shaped through craft, material cognition, and lineage, where I meet technological systems as mutable material rather than fixed destiny, and hold ancestral, ecological, artisanal, and synthetic knowledge in relation through Silk Road accumulation.

Trained in architecture and scenography at Central Saint Martins, and shaped by decades transforming environments across cultural and commercial contexts, I trace how lineage, provenance, and marginal knowledge persist inside dominant systems despite erasure, abstraction, and flattening. My projects work as living artifacts: mutable, circulatory, unfinished, following how memory and culture move through bodies, materials, and technologies.

I work through SAMARITUAL, mentors at NEW INC (New Museum), and speaks internationally across spatial, artistic, cultural, and technological contexts. My work is most often called in at moments of systemic transition, where dominant hierarchies fail and long-standing forms of cultural intelligence, historically dismissed, feminized, or rendered illegible, reassert their necessity.

ANCESTRAL FUTURES X QUANTUM CRAFT™: REMIXING CULTURAL DNA

Analog <> Digital • Artisanal <> Computational • Earth <> Cosmos • Ancestry <> Futurity • Vernacular <> Iconic • Hard <> Soft • Instinct <> Intelligence • Chaos <> Code • Hand <> Machine • Ritual <> Speculation • Myth <> Algorithm • Ephemeral <> Monumental • Local <> Global • Wild <> Engineered • Sacred <> Synthetic • East <> West • Traditional <> Contemporary • Physical <> Digital • Art <> Craft • Anarchic <> Disciplined • Light <> Dark • Young <> Old

Analog <> Digital • Artisanal <> Computational • Earth <> Cosmos • Ancestry <> Futurity • Vernacular <> Iconic • Hard <> Soft • Instinct <> Intelligence • Chaos <> Code • Hand <> Machine • Ritual <> Speculation • Myth <> Algorithm • Ephemeral <> Monumental • Local <> Global • Wild <> Engineered • Sacred <> Synthetic • East <> West • Traditional <> Contemporary • Physical <> Digital • Art <> Craft • Anarchic <> Disciplined • Light <> Dark • Young <> Old

An Entangled Protocol for sovereign futures