Crochet Coral Reef
Book description
Now perhaps the world's largest participatory art and science project, the Crochet Coral Reef combines mathematics, marine biology, environmental consciousness-raising and community art practice. Almost 8,000 people around the world have contributed to making an ever-evolving archipelago of giant woolen seascapes, which have been exhibited at the Hayward Gallery, the…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Crochet Coral Reef as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Everything we do with metabolism and digestion in our bodies also happens at a planetary level. Corals help me understand this, and this project by the Wertheim sisters helps me understand corals.
They published this book themselves so they could include the names of all the crocheters and supporters who brought the Crochet Coral Reef into being. We combine and recombine to become holobionts, working together in tiny and vast symbiosis to ingest, digest, and metabolize the planet.
From Lindsay's list on metabolism and digestion in the arts.
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