Visual guide through Dubai’s Etihad Museum outdoor garden | 2025

Working with the team at Alserkal Advisory, I developed the illustrations for "A Garden Ecology," a site-responsive educational initiative that transforms how visitors encounter the Etihad Museum's living landscape. The garden sustains a remarkably diverse ecology—native trees, seasonal insect populations, and migratory bird species, including a distinctive congregation of ducks whose presence around the ponds creates a subtle yet complex ecosystem in continuous flux.

Working alongside wildlife photographer Ahmed Almansoori, whose research provided the scientific foundation for the project, I created a series of illustrated educational placards distributed throughout the garden grounds. My illustrations serve as visual entry points for understanding the species that inhabit or traverse this space, encouraging visitors to develop their observational practice through sustained attention and thoughtful engagement with their surroundings.

The intervention is deliberately understated, designed to cultivate a more contemplative relationship with the site. Through my visual work, the garden emerges not as static backdrop but as an animate environment —one where movement, seasonal transformation, and the ephemeral presence of migrating species become integral to the visitor's spatial and sensory experience.