Reflection

Reflection

The Legend of Atlantis was always fascinating to me. That a utopian society had once existed, perhaps even still exists, underwater was something I loved to think about as a child. Part of me knew that the reason I loved it so much was because Atlantis was just a fantasy. Science and logic dictate that a living city cannot exist underwater, after all. In the United States, cities from Miami to Atlantic City, Key West to Los Angeles, San Diego to Honolulu, are candidates to become the next Atlantis. Even Manhattan, where I once lived, could soon see the day where only the tip of the Empire State Building is left above water. This was my inspiration for "Overflow." I envisioned our world as the ocean in a cup, with our Earth floating above it. When the cup of ocean overflows, human civilization will be drowned; eaten up by the insatiable hunger of the ocean as revenge on us for our abuse. Right now, we are at the turning point. The cohesive surface tension of the cup is keeping the Earth afloat; but once it topples... That is the message I would like to convey.