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Frances Alegre, Lagrimas Esteban, Madeline Mesa, and Clarie Marie Santos

Guam Workshop Participant Work

Overall Theme:

Stewardship

Category:

Animals

By Frances Alegre,
Lagrimas (Ama) Esteban,
Madeline Mesa, and Claire Marie Santos


Coke It Isn't
How do living things interact with each other and their physical environment in constructive and destructive ways? An abandoned, overflowing trash can sits in the heat of the noonday sun attracting thirsty, pesky flies to make a pit stop and multiply. The everlasting cans and plastic cups are oozing remnants of someone’s once coveted feast. The little beasts cling tightly to a straw as they creep toward the lazily evaporating liquids.


 

Spinning Out of Control
The perfectly looped, abandoned coiled wire left hanging by sloppy workers becomes a spider’s cozy home. A lone spider suspended in the middle of his intricately woven web waits eagerly for its next meal - humanly nourished juicy flies. The improper disposal of waste and human negligence inadvertently increases our disease-harboring insect population.


 

Flies in Paradise!!!
A piece of succulent, juicy orange is sizzling on the scorching and gritty asphalt as three greedy flies nibble away at it. The flies are leisurely enjoying our leftovers, while they nourish themselves and multiply exponentially.