In Photos: Litter Transforms Into Sea Creatures in Stunning Shots
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Credit: © Mandy Barker
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.
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Nebula
Nebulae plaurosbrathic, collected from Carrigaloe estuary, Cove of Cork, Ireland, was formed from a group of partially burnt flowers. -
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Pretty plankton
Plamacina retroversta ic. III, another view of the white plastic horse transformed into a drifting piece of plankton. -
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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. -
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Plastic horse
Plamacina retroversta ic. I, a specimen collected from Cobh shoreline, Cove of Cork, Ireland, was originally a white plastic horse -
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6-pack rings
Copeopod langisticus, a specimen collected from Roche's Point, Cove of Cork, Ireland, was originally a six-pack plastic ring. -
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Barbie beauty
Plividas chloticus. In a past life, this sea creature was once the arm of a Barbie doll found on Fota Island, Cove of Cork, Ireland. -
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Wheelies
Phoronilasteri crae, collected from Whitepoint, Cobh shoreline, Cove of Cork, Ireland, was once a tricycle wheel. -
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Quirky creature
Dinoplage stellices, once a mobile phone case, has been transformed into a fantastical sea creature. -
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Shoe sole
Aureplia auristice, collected from Blackrock shoreline, Cove of Cork, Ireland, was once a humble shoe sole. -
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Electrified
Heplandista ica, collected from Carrigaloe estuary, Cove of Cork, Ireland, was transformed into a fantastical plankton species from an electric plug and wire. -
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Hangin' out
Amphilima distinctae , once a coathanger, was collected from Cobh shoreline, Cove of Cork, Ireland. -
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Bottles
Maprola stipicros, Inch Beach, Cove of Cork, Ireland, was once an assortment of bottle parts. -
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Book cover
Saplitta setosica, Fota Island, Cove fo Cork, Ireland, was formed from a book with a plastic cover called "An Evil Cradling" by Brian Keenan, with fake signature. -
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Action figure
Plasterinellic, created from a plastic action man figurine, was collected from Dunkettle Interchange, Cove of Cork, Ireland. -
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A terrible beauty?
Rhizopolenia robustica, from Fota Island, Cove of Cork, Ireland, was originally a book with a plastic cover entitled "Ireland A Terrible Beauty." -
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Creature and pollution
"Beyond Drifting: Imperfectly Known Animals" book dummy. This project was presented as a science book from the 1800s, which juxtaposes the modern reality that marine organisms now incorporate microplastics, beads and fiber, as well as their original state in earlier times, when the creatures were free from this pollution. -
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1880s book
The inside cover shows the title page for the book. -
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Sea specimen
An inside page, showing a specimen.
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