2_4: THE MOST VERSATILE APPENDAGE IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM - HOMO SAPIENS HAND AND A POTATO Those are hands. All the artificial has been and is being built by them: hands forge metal, calibrate micrometers, plant and harvest potatoes. Hands design, build and operate machines; code is written by fingertips. We have built many different robots that mechanically can do the hand’s jobs - often better. Did the actual Homo sapiens hands become obsolete? There are a lot of features still to copy from this particular edition of the terrestrial vertebrate limbs; and are already, literally, in hour hands. Subject: Homo sapiens hands; a potato (Solanum tuberosum var. Folva) Lens: Sagem 569937 350mm f/9 at close distance (about 11:1 reproduction ratio) Theme 2: ONE SPECIFIC ANIMAL When thinking about nature, we picture something outside, separated from the human, artificial world made of roads, houses and cities. However we ourselves, as humans, are already inside nature, a part of it. Often artificial and natural are seen as opposite; but we are too the fruit of evolution; in our technological creations, natural materials - wood, leather, chemicals - have been and still are essentials. Our cities very well resemble very large termite nests, and we still rely critically, for the survival of the modern society, on our animal powers - reproduction, metabolism, thinking, immunity, hand-eye coordination. This series of images wish to provide technological inspiration to, and from, one specific animal: Homo sapiens. The initial plan was to take photos of technological creations - planes, ships, cranes, engines - together with their biological analogs, like seagulls, ducks, trees, inner organs; but the task revealed daunting, and seagulls really don’t want to align correctly (and dangerously) with a taking off plane. I reverted to the simpler, direct depiction of the source and maker of all artificial creations - our own human body, adult phenotype unit, between the many emerged from some billions years of evolution.