Cockle

Cardium edule (B 671),  watercolour 2011 ( 17 x 27 cm )

The Cockle, model  671, a bivalve mollusc, stimulates my fantasy. I entertain the idea that Rudolf Blaschka, when on a field trip in upper Italy and the Adriatic in 1879, saw live Cockles for sale in the market of one of the fishing villages.  Animals with their protuding extended feet feeling for a way out of the container.