From Garbage To Art

Miwa Koizumi moved to Paris, was appalled by all the trash in the streets, picked some plastic bottles up and created the above. More images here. Some background:

Inspired by aquatic animal exhibits she’d seen at zoos and aquariums, Koizumi began shaping bottles into the gorgeous and ethereal forms of jellyfish and anemone, giving them a second life as animals that live in liquid. “Sea creatures and bottles are both related to liquid and water,” she explains, and her resultant creations are indeed reminiscent of both, with bottle-bottoms artfully transformed into convincing jellyfish noggins. Though frozen in space, each “animal” is unmistakably in motion, traveling through unseen water by means of unfurling tentacles and flowing tendrils.