This project reflects Miami’s temporal fragility and its environmental reality through an installation that merges protection and projection. Tropical-themed miniatures—small-scale fantasies typically used in dioramas—are collaged in a photograph and projected onto plastic sheeting hung like hurricane barriers, emergency shelter walls, or makeshift waterproofing.
The plastic serves as shield and screen, evoking the perpetual state of preparation and adaptation that defines life in a climate-vulnerable region. As a barrier, it suggests resourcefulness born from necessity; once official infrastructure proves inadequate, temporary, improvised solutions emerge. The projected miniatures bleed through the material's surface, an idealized tropics rendered ghostly and unstable. The work asks whether we are witnessing preparation or aftermath: do these projected scenes represent the world we're trying to preserve or the one we're already preparing to leave behind?
