[Nfb-krafters-korner] Visiting the Crocheted Hyperbolic Coral Reef

[River Woman]

I enjoyed reading your description of the project, Dixie. Thanks for taking 
the time to write up the history of the project for us, and congratulations 
to you for being one of the artists involved in creating this amazing piece. 
Lynda River Woman
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From: "Dixie" <blueherons at sbcglobal.net>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 10:33 PM
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Visiting the Crocheted Hyperbolic Coral Reef


> Last summer I learned from Annette about the crocheted coral reef being 
> made
> by crafters around the Washington DC area as well as across the country.
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> I thought it might be fun to try and see if I could make a piece that 
> would
> be accepted into the project. There were 3 categories of the reef project.
> Healthy coral is vibrant in color, so those pieces are shades of reds,
> greens, blues, purples, etc.  The bleached coral, is dead coral, and is
> tans, greys, whites, etc.  Then the third category was coral created out 
> of
> garbage, like plastic bags, video cassette tapes, or had pieces of garbage
> like plastic bottles crocheted into them.   The two pieces I created both
> would fit into the "bleached coral" category.   one is a brain coral, that
> is beige with brown specks.  The second one was a bell coral and was made 
> in
> a fuzzy, creamy, off white.
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> The pieces were submitted to the Smithsonian, National museum of Natural
> History, October 2010.  They then categorized all of the pieces, and made
> them into the Hyperbolic Community Reef.  The reef was made up of pieces
> submitted by people ranging in age from 3 to 101 years old. I think the
> statistics were, that there were 800 contributors and 4000 pieces. The
> overall size of the reef is 16 feet long, 9 feet high and 10 feet deep.
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> The reef has been on  display at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum
> until this past Sunday.  I wanted to see it before the exhibit closed.  I
> was met by the woman Jennifer Lindsay who helped in the design of the 
> reef.
> She told me about the evolution of the project and the building of the 
> reef.
> She also had researched the pieces I had contributed and located them 
> among
> the pieces in the reef.  She allowed me to reach into the display and 
> touch
> the pieces that she found that she thought were the ones I had made. 
> Nobody
> else is allowed to touch the display this was an accommodation she made 
> for
> me.  I also was able to touch some pieces they had out for the general
> public to touch.  One piece was made out of a VSHS tape, another from a
> cassette tape.  The tapes had been pulled out of their cases and the tape
> had been crocheted into a piece of garbage coral.  They also did this with
> plastic grocery bags.  I was also allowed to touch a piece that was made 
> of
> yarn and it was a jelly fish.  That one was really cool and I am going to
> try and recreate it.
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> So, do corals count as underwater flowers?  Those are my crafted flowers 
> for
> this week's question.
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