United Arab Emirates

Al Ain Oasis

A cultivated landscape inside the city Al Ain Oasis is not simply a patch of green interrupting the desert. Its palms, water channels, paths and enclosed plots form an agricultural landscape within the modern city. The shade catches the attention first, but the more revealing subject is how that shade is maintained. Trees depend on water, water depends on distribution, and cultivation depends on knowledge and work. The oasis makes those relationships visible in a…...