HYPERBOLIC CROCHET CORAL REEF: A WOOLLY WONDER @ THE SCIENCE GALLERY

Highlights of the opening of HYPERBOLIC CROCHET CORAL REEF: A WOOLLY WONDER in March 2010 at the SCIENCE GALLERY, Trinity College, Dublin. Created and Curated by Margaret and Christine Wertheim of the Institute For Figuring in Los Angeles
One of the acknowledged wonders of the natural world, the Great Barrier Reef stretches along the coast of Queensland, Australia, in riotous profusion of colour and form unparalleled on our planet. But global warming and pollutants so threaten this fragile marvel it now faces devastation, along with reefs around the world. In homage to these disappearing treasures, Australian sisters Christine and Margaret Wertheim instigated a project to crochet a handmade reef, a woolly testimony that celebrates also a strange geometry realised throughout the oceanic realm.

[@elainelim325]

I was involved in the Chicago Coral Reef Project several years ago. So enjoyable to work with like-minded people at the Jane Adam’s Hull House.

[@mamarave]

I just found this....how do we start a reef here to put on show and support our oceans?

[@paolaidrontino]

beautiful!

[@1brannewa]

very nice