Barker photographs each individual item against a black background and overlays the images with one another.
Her collection aims to reflect the huge amount of refuse collected from the earth’s oceans over a spread amount of time and the danger they pose to marine life.
'Soup: Refused'
Ingredients: plastic oceanic debris affected by the chewing and attempted ingestion by animals, including a toothpaste tube
'Soup: Turtle'
Ingredients: plastic turtles that have circled and existed in the North Pacific Ocean for 16 years
'Soup: Tomato'
Ingredients: red plastic debris
'Soup: Translucent'
Ingredients: translucent plastic debris
'Soup: Bird's nest'
Ingredients: discarded fishing line that have formed nest-like balls due to tidal and oceanic movement
'Soup: Ruinous remembrance'
Ingredients; plastic flowers, leaves, stems and fishing line
additives: bones, skulls, feathers and fish
'Soup: 500+'
Ingredients: representing more than 500 pieces of plastic debris found in the digestive tract of a dead albatross chick in the North Pacific Ocean
[via Design Boom]
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