KELSEY MERRECK WAGNER
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Specie Invasive: Cozza di Zebra (Invasive Species: Zebra Mussel)
June 2013
Random/pop-up installations in Florence, Italy

​Media: earthenware clay, glazes
The Environmental Protection Agency defines invasive species as "a plant or animal that is foreign to an ecosystem and causes significant changes". After years of watching my beloved Lake Michigan react to invasive species like the Zebra Mussel and Quagga Mussel, I am intimate with the intricate striations and curves of these creatures and the waters they now inhabit. 

As an American artist working and studying in Italy, am I an invasive species? Probably. These abstracted, handbuilt clay mussel were glazed and fired before being placed in uncomfortable urban settings where I sat silently, gauging the reactions of locals and tourists alike.
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  • Home
  • Portfolio
    • Loom & Doom
    • UPSIDE DOWN/DOWNSIDE UP
    • Cambodian Marine Life @ FIF Nature Discovery Center
    • Elephants in Cambodia @ FIF Nature Discovery Center
    • Plastic Project
    • Murals
    • Birds of Cambodia @ FIF Nature Discovery Center
    • Tree of Life @ FIF Nature Discovery Center
    • The Elephantine in the Anthropocene
    • From Bangkok to Boone
    • Protecting Pachyderms: From Thailand to Tennessee
    • Collective Vigilance: Speaking for the New River
    • plant life
    • Most Sacred Irritant
    • lepidoptera/earth bones
    • The Precariousness of Mother Earth and the Fragility She Allows the Water to Embody
    • Specie Invasive: Cozza di Zebra
    • how the zebra got his stripes
  • Exhibit History
  • Contact
    • Shop/Commissions
  • CV
    • Media