Paper Boat is a site-specific, interactive augmented reality artwork that stages the climate crisis as an embodied, playable, and performative experience. Confronting the invisibility of sea-level rise, the work overlays rising water, melting glaciers, and plastic waste onto the familiar landscape of Austin. Participants become active spect-actors, navigating a human figure through flooding streets and debris toward a paper boat as the environment slowly submerges around them. Racing against time, players must rescue the figure before the area is overtaken by water. Paper Boat challenges participants to confront global warming not as a distant future, but as a lived, urgent reality.
