Course packets slide from professor cart in art room

Bright midmorning light streams through skylights, illuminating a crowded wooden cart overflowing with white course packets. Several stacks slide precariously off the top tier, their crisp edges blurring against the polished concrete floor. The room features high ceilings and large windows typical of an art classroom in Escuintla, with easels and canvases visible in the soft-focus background. Dust motes hang suspended in the shafts of light, against the heavy gray overcast sky visible outside. The dry season air is still, evidenced by the lack of movement in hanging fabric curtains. Sharp focus rests on the falling papers, showing the moment of imbalance before they scatter across the gray surface.