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The Hyberbolic Crochet Reef

Only a few days before I leave for New York city.

The Rubbish Vortex and my Crochet Sea Creatures will be on show as part of The Institute For Figuring's Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef. Come and see................... there will be coral and sea creatures made by women from all around the world.

The Winter Garden, The World Financial Centre . Opening reception will be held on Sunday the 6th of April from 2-5 pm. The show be on until May 18.

Please come and see this and the sister reef in The Broadway Windows, NYU.

Hope to see some of you guys there. Come and say hello.

A Crochet Vacuum

A box full of crochet sea creatures are on their way to New York. Fedex picked up the box this morning. I'll take the rest of the pieces with me in the suitcase. It feels strange now to have some extra time......... crochet withdrawal perhaps.

An anemone:

Regina Anemone
Crocheted preloved tapestry wool.

Three Coral Gardens:

Grey Ascidian.
Crocheted preloved tapestry wool.

Purple Barnacles
Crocheted preloved tapestry wool.

Pink Sponge
Crocheted preloved tapestry wool.

Violet Ascidian
Crocheted preloved tapestry wool.

Black Beauties

Continuing the black and white theme.........

Beach Detritus

The Elvis Costello Specs are my favourite.

A bracelet crocheted from one black plastic bag from Estyn and a teeny left-over red plastic piece.

A black motif from the same plastic bag

My all time favourite beach finds........ shark egg-cases. From the Port Jackson Shark, I believe. The tendril anchors the egg to the sea floor. The little baby shark lives inside.

Enjoy the weekend my maties.

Secret Strangeness of the Ocean

Some of my books are treasures of secret strangeness. One in particular is old and was found thrown on a pile of rubbish on the road. It sits comfortably on my bookshelf waiting to be opened and admired at regular intervals. For at least 25 years it has been a source of inspiration to me, a portal to an imaginary world. Some of my favourite images are black and white and have a wonderful lithographic quality.

Two young Puffer Fish (Diodon histrix)

Coelographis regina

Elatomma juniperum

Lithocircus magnificus

Orosphaera serpentina (I love saying the latin names out loud)

The bottom four images are skeletons of radiolarians. Radiolarians are ancient microscopic traces of life dating back 600 million years. These secret little creatures are the precursors to all marine life. Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) studied their perfect symmetrical structures and did exquisite drawings of them.

These images are models of radiolarians blown from glass by Herman Mueller in 1940.

........ the degree of difficulty crocheting my crochet sea creatures fades into insignificance compared to these little beauties.

Wildlife of the South Seas, F.A Raedelberger, and V.I Groschoff, Verbandsdruckerei Ltd., Berne, 1967.