Oasis is a permanent realtime generative audiovisual artwork commissioned for the main lobby of the UHealth Doral hospital in Miami. The work was created to provide a constant source of calm and tranquility for patients, visitors, and staff, drawing inspiration from the natural beauty of the Miami region.
The artwork exists in a perpetual state of creation, generating new compositions throughout each day while maintaining a cohesive visual language rooted in the organic forms and movements of South Florida’s unique ecosystems.
The foundation of Oasis began with extensive documentation of local natural environments. Multiple digital scans were captured from the Everglades and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden using photogrammetry and LiDAR techniques. These scans preserved not just the visual appearance of these landscapes, but their three-dimensional spatial relationships and atmospheric qualities.
These captured environments were then composited together as point clouds and Gaussian splats—techniques that represent three-dimensional space as millions of individual points or probability distributions. Rather than treating these as static models, each point becomes an active agent in a generative painting simulation.
In this system, each point functions as a miniature autonomous brush, spreading digital pigment across a simulated canvas. The brushes respond to generative animations of wind and water movement, while a generative camera meanders through the living landscape to discover new compositions and focal points throughout the day. The result is an ever-evolving impressionistic painting that evokes the serenity of natural environments while existing in a purely digital realm.