Today in The New York Times there's a feature story about my Crochet Coral Reef. It’ll be in the print paper tomorrow as a whole page in the Science Section - a rare honor. The article focuses on the mathematics behind the project and its interface between handicraft, hyperbolic geometry, and climate change.
The Crochet Coral Reef is now the world’s largest art+science project with 25,000 participants in 50+ cities around the globe, and a unique form of sci-comm that blends art, craft, math, science, community practice and feminism. Many thanks to writer Siobhan Roberts for penning such an elegant essay!
The Crochet Reef is a project I created with my artist twin-sister Christine Wertheim, a lunatical crochet-machine who has single-handedly crafted more miles of video-tape than possibly any person on Earth.
We also have some pieces in an exhibition on now at the Wignall Museum at Chaffey College, Seeing the Unseen: Math and Art. One of the works is a crocheted videotape of The Matrix – an indexical handcrafted homage to the all-round excellence of Keanu Reeves.
This is terrific, Margaret! A really good article, to boot.
Very cool!