Terrifying animals made from car tyres - PHOTOS

The cat is just one of a zoo of beasts made by artist Ji Yong-Ho out of nothing but second-hand rubber.

Powerfully muscled sharks, lions and rhinos also feature in his collection, with their flesh fashioned from strips of old tractor, bike and car tyres.

Each one takes three months to make and can sell for up to £52,000.

‘Rubber is very flexible, like skin and muscles,’ says Mr Ji, explaining his preference for the medium.

‘The product is from nature but here it’s changed. It looks scary,’ he added.

Whether he is fashioning a 28cm (11in) dog or a 3m (10ft) hammerhead shark, Mr Ji uses different kinds of tread to vary the skin texture.

For example, the neck and forehead of the rhinoceros above are made from broadly treaded tractor tyres.

These sit beneath a rough outer skin made of motorcycle tyres.

The 31-year-old artist from Seoul, South Korea, was inspired by a – particularly boring – childhood memory of the spare tyre on his family’s Jeep Wrangler.

He was also intrigued by the transformation of a natural material into an industrial product.

‘I wanted to express that tyres, which are intended for modern society, came from nature and can then be reborn as a yet another new form of life,’ he added.

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/Metro.co.uk/