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Who's painting the shells of live snails and leaving them on Carson Beach?

By adamg on Mon, 10/26/2015 - 7:55pm

Gabrielle Schaffner picked up a handful of painted snails on Carson Beach today and wonders what's going on.

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Comments

By anon on Mon, 10/26/2015 - 8:31pm.

Taste the rainbow!

By anon on Mon, 10/26/2015 - 8:36pm.

Is this a hipster thing?

By SwirlyGrrl on Mon, 10/26/2015 - 9:17pm.

Probably a bunch of young kids thing. Or, maybe, a bored people with nail polish thing.

By UHubFan on Mon, 10/26/2015 - 9:27pm.

n/t

By anon on Mon, 10/26/2015 - 9:45pm.

Pet stores tend to sell painted shells for hermit crabs, but then again, hermit crabs have an exoskeleton, while snails have gross gooey skin.

By SwirlyGrrl on Mon, 10/26/2015 - 9:46pm.

There's the stress of painting, and that anything other than tempera will probably interfere with the functional properties of their shells.

By Refugee on Tue, 10/27/2015 - 12:42am.

Tempura is the best way to prepare snails. Just as the French.

By teric on Tue, 10/27/2015 - 12:27pm.

people should knock this off.

By anon on Mon, 10/26/2015 - 9:32pm.

it's got hipster and/or art school student written all over it.

By SwirlyGrrl on Tue, 10/27/2015 - 12:17am.

That's why I'm thinking girl scouts gone bad ...

By Malcolm Tucker on Tue, 10/27/2015 - 10:28am.

...but most universities do have a "fine art" department of some sort.

Anyway, I don't know if this is the work of an actual art student or what, but I doubt it was a kid. Probably some shitty stoner 20-year-old.

By BostonDog on Tue, 10/27/2015 - 11:42am.

All of Boston's ranked art schools (MFA Museum School, MassArt, BU's CFA, etc) have pretty rigorous entrance exams where you need to prove you can do more then paint a snail a single color. You might not like the art of these students but they've got plenty of talent and they aren't wasting their time painting snails a single color.

I'm thinking is was some under-18 kid, maybe a grade schooler out for an "activity" with their folks or class.

By anon on Tue, 10/27/2015 - 10:30am.

"it's got hipster and/or art school student written all over it."

No, it's got elementary school student written all over it. If this is all an art school student can come up with maybe they should switch majors.

By adamg on Tue, 10/27/2015 - 11:07am.

An elementary-school kid would paint them, then beg his parents for an aquarium to keep the snails in.

By Big Chief on Tue, 10/27/2015 - 10:36am.

Snail polish.

By lbb on Tue, 10/27/2015 - 10:54am.

It's the work of someone who's arrogant enough to believe they can, and should, improve on nature. Consequences are irrelevant.

By anon on Mon, 10/26/2015 - 9:50pm.

They were born like that!

By epmurphy on Mon, 10/26/2015 - 10:50pm.

Maybe same person who left Teddy Bears along the benches near lagoon.

By bastiat on Tue, 10/27/2015 - 6:11am.

Snails salon just opened somewhere nearby, in South Boston or Dorchester.

By alabb on Tue, 10/27/2015 - 8:21am.

Spiral, trying to go viral

By ElizaLeila on Tue, 10/27/2015 - 7:33am.

Periwinkles?

By adamg on Tue, 10/27/2015 - 11:08am.

Maybe the lighter blue one.