material list:

• Cement blocks and chopped wood blocks, sourced from construction at Al Shindagha, Dubai, UAE.

• Branches from local trees in Jumeira, uprooted to make space for new gardens. Now supporting new forms.

• Skeleton of a bird, found within the building. Originally displaced by construction, it now returns—reanimated through black rubber tubing wires and plastic feathers, living beyond the death of its home. It rests on a ceramic shrine, while in its place, a tower has been built.

• Work gloves, worn during the making of the installation, now resting on wooden tree-like branches. Their fabric carries charcoal—a processed version of the chopped wood blocks they now lay upon, forming a cycle of material transformation.

• Desert plant, found on-site in Al Shindagha, adapting to new surroundings.

• Charcoal drawings:

  • Three-year-old drawing of an air plant, reflecting:

  • a charcoal drawing on a branch, hidden beneath its outer skin, revealing layers of time.

  • A charcoal drawing of a worm-like drainage pipe, seen through the lens of a window on a dark night in Providence.

  • A charcoal drawing of imported drainage pipes, drawn from memory, tracing unseen circulations.

• Pastel drawing of a bent steel pipe, resembling a branch. The form extends beyond the drawing itself, growing roots onto the wall, blurring the boundary between representation and physical space. The wooden creatures emerge in front of it, as if responding to this act of material transformation.

• Hanging branch, shedding its outermost layer to reveal a charcoal-like inner skin.

• Drainage pipes, sourced from House 16, now demolished. Once conduits for water, now flattened by the sun.

• Rebar and concrete trophy-mount-like structure, found in Abu Dhabi near the water—overlooking its wooden counterpart, which is grounded in darkness, reflecting the back of a billboard on Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai.

• Wooden creatures, their heads composed of processed wooden blocks, geometrically shaped, while their bodies are supported by uprooted branches. A tension emerges—between the rigid, controlled geometry of the head and the organic, branching curves of the body, bouncing off the ground in a quiet insistence: branches keep branching.

• Four yellow flower petals, collected from Dubai Hospital, dried and weightless—their origins unknown.