Sky Grove / New Jackson West Hospital, Miami Dade FL

Sky Grove
Completed August 2021
Collaboration with Public Artist Ellen Harvey
Dimensions: Approximately 3,000 square feet of marble mangrove trees laid into 16,000 square foot terrazzo floor.
Materials: Various colored marble water jet cut laid into a terrazzo floor
Jackson West Hospital, Miami Dade, Florida
Jackson West, new hospital, Miami Dade, Florida is adjacent to the Florida Everglades and the architects used the mangrove tree/root systems in the hospital design. We are bringing nature into the hospital and celebrating the unique landscape (Everglades) that surrounds the complex. Nature provides a unique calm to us all in difficult times and the iconic mangrove represents – unity, long life, and survival in extremely difficult circumstances.
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