Inner Tubes' Inner Beauty

Eli Baxter, an artist based in Hawai, makes fantastical creatures out of old inner tubes from bicycles, such as this spiky thing, above, incorporating the tyre valves... She also makes such marvels as these, below.

This... is a handbag!

Another Hawaian artist worthy of note: Aaron Padilla, working in wood forms which interweave and interlock, below.