Lucy Kruse wants her art to disgust you.

Her 7-foot-sculpture, “Many Hands,” is a sea creature like no other — made of bottle caps, buckets, Styrofoam, Mylar balloons, fireworks canisters, coffee cups, cigarette butts, fishing line and more of what washed up at Kent Island.

If you’re in Queen Anne’s County, it’s coming to a school near you.

“Many Hands” is a collaboration of Kruse’s sculpting and welding talents — and a day’s worth of trash from Kent Island Beach Cleanups. The sculpture is made possible through the National Aquarium in Baltimore and the Chesapeake Bay Trust mini-grant program.

From afar, the sculpture looks like many hands pushing debris up out of the waves of plastic bottles that represent the Chesapeake Bay. Below the waves the art includes a spotted eagle ray made of a landscaping bucket, a Styrofoam ice chest and bottle caps; and jellyfish made of plastic cups.

Once it’s finished, Kruse and Kent Island Beach Cleanups will unveil “Many Hands” at the Queen Anne’s County Board of Education on Sept. 27. It will then spend October through March touring 14 schools in the county, along with educational materials provided by Kent Island Beach Cleanups and the Chesapeake Bay Trust.

— Baltimore Sun Media Group