Coral Forest

Given that you read here at this blog, you may well like to keep your boundaries between art and science nicely blurred, in which case you might like to learn more about the coral reef forests made of crochet spearheaded by Margaret and Christine Wertheim. The pieces mix crochet (a hand-craft I know and love well from my childhood – I got to explore my love for symmetry, patterns, and problem-solving by making doilies) with mathematics – hyperbolic geometry in particular – as well as biology (mimicking and celebrating the forms of corals – and drawing attention to their destruction in the wild). You can read much more about the projects here. I’ve mentioned the work here before on the blog, but the other day I went along to see a new set of pieces that had been prepared to be shipped out to Abu Dhabi for an exhibition. They were rather lovely. Some photos are in a slide show below (I apologise in advance for them being sometimes a bit blurred… I was working in low light with a hand held camera).

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-cvj