This hand-drawn animated short film was created using only a single sheet of paper, charcoal, erasers, and a camera on a tripod. For 3 months, I had this paper taped on a wall in my art classroom, working in as virtually similar of lighting conditions as possible, as I made slight edits to the page and took a photo after each modification. The result was a compilation of just over 700 photos strung together back to back to simulate motion. It was one of the most difficult and longest artistic projects I've even undertaken, but surely one of the most rewarding, too.

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Beyond the process, the idea is truly the heart of this work. As a born and raised Floridian with most of my family residing along the southern coast of the state, growing tensions regarding climate change and its effect on rising sea levels hit close to home. The dangers of remaining complacent are rampant when the city of Miami and other areas of the South Florida coastline are predicted to be underwater in the next century. This video tells the story of the cartographer's "disappearing allegory"; figuratively, a map is the visual representation of a cartographer's story which they are conveying about the world. As rising sea levels threaten to flood our shores, the land masses we have grown accustomed to will begin to shift and fade, stripping away at the map, and the story of our existence, until the water overwhelms. The dark, satirical finale reminds us of the woes to come if we continue to take for granted our wondrous planet.