ENDANGERED: Fine Art & Photography Contest 2019 Submission

A group of Orangutans is called a congress. This piece combines the different ways people view the Borneo region, one as a home to local peoples, and one as a profitable region for timber and agriculture. Different economic systems are woven around the Orangutan; systems resulting in its decline.

In a cumulative portrait of an Orangutan, the creature that captures the fascination of cultural groups around the world, (and as a creature that doesn't engage in these systems) we can question the economic forces involved in its decline, driving questions around what systems need to change for its comeback, and how both traditional and modern cultures can work together to prevent the extinction of this animal and the resource exhaustion of this biome.

This collage is made entirely of torn magazines and found paper trash - smashing together ideas and perspectives of Borneo and the issues facing the Orangutan in one piece - creating its own messy visual ""system.""

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