An Unexpected Guest
Los Angeles, CA
2018, Senior, Art
Reflection
From the looks of it, it’s a polar bear on a melting piece of ice that’s “locking eyes” with a brown bear that’s on a floating tube in a jungle. The brown bear shows that the jungle is its home as it seems to be familiar and comfortable with the environment, including the small bird perched atop its head. The polar bear in a jungle obviously signals it doesn’t belong there. It also signals that something’s wrong because it’s not very possible for a polar bear to just wander into a completely different environment because it wants to, unless it was forced to. As known by many people, climate change causes glaciers to melt, thus causing less ice for arctic animals. Because there’s less ice and more water, the ice just ends up drifting elsewhere, and this polar bear was the unfortunate soul whose ice drifted far away. Since polar bears aren’t adapted enough to live in a jungle, this one will die soon because it's too hot.