KELSEY MERRECK WAGNER
  • About
  • Portfolio
    • Loom & Doom: Plastic Weavings
    • MSU Herbarium Installation
    • UPSIDE DOWN/DOWNSIDE UP
    • 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
    • CV
    • Media
Tree of Life

Permanent Installation, December 2018
Fauna in Focus Nature Discovery Center, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Media: recycled plastic bottles, foam, chicken wire, masking tape, paper mache, acrylic paint, fake plants

This life-sized Banyan Tree is the focal point of the Nature Discovery Center's lobby, and provides visitors with information about the importance of trees in local ecosystems. Five large branches enhance the Jungle Classroom on the second level.
Funding for this project generously donated by Fat Panda Cafe
Built in partnership with Fauna in Focus and students from PEPY School
  • About
  • Portfolio
    • Loom & Doom: Plastic Weavings
    • MSU Herbarium Installation
    • UPSIDE DOWN/DOWNSIDE UP
    • 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
    • CV
    • Media