My art installation "The Educational Trap" is meant to give Mesa college a bit of color and life. I used the flies and fly swatter to symbolize the trap feeling many students including myself have felt during finals, thought it was appropriate. The flies symbolize the many ways you can take your career path and the swatter being the pressures of everyday life trying to get you down. Heavy street art influence like Shepard Fairey and Banksy gave me this idea to do this piece as well as a lot of Ron English's pieces on social problems. Mesa college seems to be a bit bland and uninspiring with grey and blue being the only featured colors around campus except mural by the cafeteria. By bringing some more color and life I believe it would inspire student to work harder in their studies.
- John Martinez
