Balance

Balance

By Emily Gommel

Set in an ombre background ranging from orange at the bottom to yellow at the top, a portrait image is shown. In the bottom right corner, a goldfish swims in a blue martini glass filled with green liquid that also has a black spider hanging from the rim. Beside which, another black spider crawls toward a McDonald’s small fry sleeve in the center. From this bag, green plants with thick, cactus-like stems grow, with branches from their tops separating into leaves. Next to the french fry sleeve in the top left corner, a crumpled, blue Bud Light can is filled with three daisies, one of which is wilted and has dropped a petal while a black fly sits atop a second one’s bowed stem.