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A look into a whale shark mouth.
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A Smiling Gentle Giant

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The Gyre is an abstract piece symbolizing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a large ocean vortex that collects trash from around the Pacific Ocean.
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The Plastic Gyre

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A volunteer puts together the bleached coral reef by stacking pieces of Styrofoam onto wire.
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Building the Bleached Reef

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A fish made from pieces of plastic found on the beach swims above a bleached reef made of Styrofoam.
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Bleached Styrofoam Reef

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A plastic bottle jellyfish sculpture.
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Plastic Jellyfish

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After collecting, cleaning and sorting the plastic, the community came back together to construct the whale ribcage.
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Building the Whale Ribcage

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A whalebone rib cage replica made from empty white bottles.
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Whalebone Rib Cage

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The Fish Bite Fish is made exclusively from pieces of plastic that washed ashore with bite marks from fish and other animals to make the point that animals trying to eat floating plastic is a real problem.
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Fish Bite Fish

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Plastic sorted by color.
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Sorted Beach Plastic

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A volunteer sorts washed plastic collected from the beach into buckets by color and size.
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Sorting Plastic from the Beach

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A life-size sea star sculpture made from plastic trash.
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A Musical Sea Star

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A close-up of Lidia the Seal—like the view you'd get if you approach the sculpture in real life—shows the gory details of the everyday objects that wash up on the beach.
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Lidia the Seal Detail

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