Thread by @hanspeterarp

#Plastic in the environment is not inert.

#Plasticpollution slowly interacts with the nature to form new, hybrid-particles that are not-natural, not synthetic, but a hybrid of dentritic organplastoids

This one is a tangle of seaweed and fish line. The next...

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example of a dentritic organoplastoid is a mix of plastic foil, fibers, and aged compost; where the plastic intermingles in the detritus of the organic waste, fusing with it, dreading it yet and outliving it, forming a new type of soil..

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This is a plastisphere on a cone, a precursor to these dentritic organoplastoid. A niche of barnacles and other creatures slowly break down the surface plastic, forming new macromolecules and dentritic organoplastoid micro- and nanoparticles that scatter in the sea...

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With this fusion of synthetic and the natural,it is getting harder to tell where the plastics end and the sand begins...

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the same can be said about the soil, as it transforms, with its increasing population of plastic and dentritic organoplastoids between the roots, worms, insects and mushrooms and mammals. What will our grandchildren's soil be like?

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These images are all by the artist Elizabeth Ellenwood as part of an art and science book project called

"the interweaving
of the synthetic
&
natural world"

See more here: partner.sciencenorway.no/art-ngi-ocean/…

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The term #dentriticorganoplastoid (or DOP) was made in collaboration with @rebecca_altman, reflecting the fusion of natural and synthetic detritus, & that some early plastic were called "oids".

More artwork: elizabethellenwood.com

Thanks to @FulbrightPrgrm & @InfoNGI

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**dreading=>degrading with