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

[Zimmer, Cindy]

Wow, Dixie that sounds very cool.  Thanks for sharing!

> 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 
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> 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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