Some of those wood scraps battered by ocean waves and strewn across beaches become valued construction material. Fitted together into an standing bear to adorning the Arctic Brotherhood building in Skagway, Alaska, driftwood assemblages are making appearances all over the place.

See, and share, more photos of them in the Driftwood Art gallery.

Photos from Room With A View, Gustaf_E, markkingdon, Cathy Withers-Clarke, and linablair.