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"Atlas of Life" is a 3-minute graphic essay that investigates the intersect of living and non-living from a metaphysical perspective. By weaving elements of storytelling, creative writing, experimental sound design, image making, animation, AIGC, typography, and filmmaking, this graphic short embraces a fusion of digital production and traditional analog techniques. The short is an outwardly-oriented invitation, asking the audience to join the collective entity of "us" as we traverse through time and transcend into a grander existence, a new embodiment of life.