JOHN
LUO

The Endless Garden

Mixed Reality  |  Experience Design  |  Exhibition

The Endless Garden is an immersive digital installation created for The Dalí Museum (St. Petersburg, Florida), designed to transform visitors from viewers into co-creators of a shared, evolving surreal landscape. Conceived by our team as a living, participatory artwork, the installation reimagines Salvador Dalí’s visual language through contemporary digital interaction.

The project draws inspiration from a little-known, unrealized collaboration from the 1930s, when Salvador Dalí and Alberto Giacometti were commissioned by the Count and Countess de Noailles to design an experimental garden. Although the garden was never built, its spirit of play, experimentation, and surreal imagination became the conceptual foundation for our work. Rather than attempting to recreate the original proposal, we approached it as an open-ended question: What might a surrealist garden become if it could continue to grow—shaped collectively by those who encounter it?

Developed as part of the special exhibition Alberto Giacometti & Salvador Dalí: Through & Beyond Surrealism, The Endless Garden invites visitors to use their mobile devices to generate surreal objects inspired by Dalí’s recurring symbols, motifs, and dream logic. These individual contributions are instantly woven into a large-scale projected environment, where they coexist, overlap, and transform into a continuously evolving digital garden. No two moments of the installation are the same; each visitor subtly reshapes the landscape, leaving behind a trace that becomes part of a collective visual memory.

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TEAM:

Project Leader:
Lois He 3D Generalist:
John Luo
Jimmy Zhang Developer:
Lois He
John Luo
Vio Zhu Creative Tech:John Luo
Lois He