The The Institute For Figuring // Gallery has produced an exhibit called "The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef" displaying images of a type of crochet that is rather unusual, as pictured here. This reef carries the attribution, "Crochet Coral and Anemone Garden" with sea slug by Marianne Midelburg. The pieces model various types of corals, and the exhibit includes information on the coral reefs that are the inspiration for the exhibit. It's hard to say exactly what the Institute is about. It is about crochet; it's about pollution and the ocean; it's about hyperbolic space, fractals, and other things quite esoteric by my standards. But this exhibit is clearly a celebration of the intersection of handicraft and higher math, science and ecology. Not at all what I was looking for when I went searching for an online exhibit to blog this week.
The exhibit consists of information pages on coral reefs, pollution, the rubbish vortex in the Pacific Ocean, and the galleries themselves, pages with thumbnails of the crochet corals that can be enlarged to show detail of the handiwork. The images in the information pages are captioned, but the gallery images are not. No additional metadata on the images is available.
The audience for this exhibit is probably a general audience, though I suppose that there probably aren't that many people interested in crochet that expresses higher math and concern for global warming, plastic pollution, and the death of coral reefs all at the same time. I certainly learned something from my visit.
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