This story is set in a fictional world, a counterfactual reality imagined through a detailed study of Florida’s landscape and culture. It began in the 1980s when the buyout of lands from the sugar industry marked the start of efforts to clean the waters contaminated by agricultural runoff. In this alternate history, the ambitious “Sheet Flow Canal” project is successfully approved—a wetland restoration initiative designed to reconnect Lake Okeechobee to the Everglades. While this long-desired project promises ecological benefits, it also brings significant changes and challenges to the people living on these lands and the landscape itself.
Writing and storyboarding:
Keith Scheideler, Gunay Mammadova
Graphic artists:
Gunay Mammadova (Chapter 1)
Keith Scheideler (Chapter 2)
Design Studio Instructor:
Sean Burkholder
