>“The Queen” ,in this case, is a very regal rubber duckie and a (the?) central figure in Kerstin Agger‘s “Die Königin reist” project.

Kerstin’s an artist based in Bad Münster am Stein working in oils/acrylic/watercolours, photography and installations.

Bumped into her over the weekend at Kunst Direkt, Rhineland-Palatinate’s exceptionally good biennial B2C art fair.

The project started out with a single duck that tagged along with Kerstin on her travels and was photographed in a wide range of locations.

They’ve obviously gone forth and multiplied (or been cloned) because large numbers have been released back into the wild.

In Cuxhaven, for example, where emigrants embarked on a new life in the Americas and elsewhere in the 19th century.

Cool stuff.

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