hyperbolic crochet coral reef

Wow. This exhibit looks so amazing. It is coral form the Great Barrier Reef... in crochet! It is from the exhibit at Track16 in Santa Monica CA: 

HYPERBOLIC CROCHET CORAL REEF 
By The INSTITUTE FOR FIGURING AND COMPANIONS

CURATED BY MARGARET AND CHRISTINE WERTHEIM

"One of the acknowledged wonders of the natural world, the Great Barrier Reef stretches along the coast of Queensland Australia, in a riotous profusion of color and form unparalleled on our planet. But global warming and pollutants so threaten this fragile marvel that it may well be gone by the end of the century. In homage to the Great One, Christine and Margaret Wertheim of the Institute For Figuring have instigated a project to crochet a handmade reef, a woolly testimony that now engages thousands of women the world over..."

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