Desert is a Forest

A garden of complex entanglements, Desert is a Forest examines the politics of food, domestication, relationships between humans and non-humans, and the way we see and interpret the environment, while also telling the unique history of the UAE’s plant ecology and nutritional habits. Seen here is one of the plants featured in the courtyard. The selection includes plants that are indigenous to the UAE that are/were traditionally consumed both by humans and goats or used for medicinal purposes. Most of the plants cultivated for the garden grow naturally in the wilderness where they are often mistaken as weeds, and in areas where goats graze.