Shifting Baselines (2026)

On the edge of Boca Chica, Texas, where the Gulf of Mexico meets the Rio Grande, the village once pulsed with the steady rhythm of the tide. Yet this untamed landscape is now trembling on the brink of permanent transformation. The marshes have been siphoned dry, the shorelines sealed off, and family homes quietly erased—all under the growing shadow of a skyscraper-tall rocket, poised to tear through the atmosphere and into the void beyond.