Resumen de Animal or mineral?
Ings features Mandy Barker's photograph of Copeopod langisticus. Barker photographed this in a style that suggests a plate from a 19th-century natural history, and has gone on to fashion a book of such plates. Other objects featured here include a Barbie doll's arm, plastic flowers and a tricycle wheel, all are scavenged from the coastline of Cork, Ireland. The place is significant for Barker, for it was here, in 1816, that marine biologist John Vaughan Thompson was posted as a military surgeon. In Cobh harbor, he became the first person to observe the small, immotile organisms known as plankton
