In Photos: Litter Transforms Into Sea Creatures in Stunning Shots

Photo Credit: © Mandy Barker

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Beyond drifting

Artist Mandy Barker has used her photographic talents to capture bits of ocean flotsam — such as stroller wheels, toy horses, burnt plastic flowers and six-pack rings — and transform them into plankton-like sea creatures. Barker's art exhibit will be published in the book "Beyond Drifting: Imperfectly Known Animals" (Overlapse, forthcoming May 2017).

Here, Ophelia medustica, a specimen collected from Glounthaune shoreline, Cove or Cork, Ireland, was made of a stroller wheel.

Nebula

Photo Credit: © Mandy Barker

Nebula

Nebulae plaurosbrathic, collected from Carrigaloe estuary, Cove of Cork, Ireland, was formed from a group of partially burnt flowers.

Pretty plankton

Photo Credit: © Mandy Barker

Pretty plankton

Plamacina retroversta ic. III, another view of the white plastic horse transformed into a drifting piece of plankton.

Burnt flower

Pleurobrachia stileucae, a fantastical type of plankton formed is created from a partially burnt plastic flower collected from the Carrigaloe estuary, Cove of Cork, Ireland.

In Photos: Litter Transforms Into Sea Creatures in Stunning Shots

Beyond drifting

Nebula

Nebula

Pretty plankton

Pretty plankton

Burnt flower

Burnt flower

Plastic horse