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Hyperbolic crochet coral reef - About the Crochet Coral Reef - Crochet Reef Workshops and Lectures
Crochet Reef Exhbitions - Exhibition Schedule
HYPerbolic Crochet basics
- Other Crochet Reefs
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The IFF Crochet Reef is a homage to the disappearing wonder of the Great Barrier Reef and corals everywhere. So too, the IFF is bringing into being a crocheted invocation of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the vast gyre of plastic trash that is accumulating in the north Pacific Ocean. [See Previous Entry.] We call this piece the Rubbish Vortex. Where the Reef is made from wools and silks and cottons, and other lovely yarns, the Rubbish Vortex is being composed from used plastic shopping bags cut into strips and knotted together. The Queen of the Rubbish Vortex is Helle Jorgensen, a horticulturalist and former research geneticist in Sydney Australia. Helle is an expert on plastic-bag handicrafts and has been knitting and making things with plastic-bag yarn for years. We first discovered Helle’s work on Flickr – the world’s most astonishing repository of creative enthusiasms – and we approached her to collaborate on the Vortex. We are thrilled that she has risen to the challenge. Helle’s website contains a comprehensive tutorial in how to make plastic-bag yarn and we highly recommend it to all those who’d like to make plastic-bag things for themselves. Over the coming year we will post updates here on the progress of the Rubbish Vortex, which can also be followed on Helle’s gooseflesh blog. The Vortex will be exhibited along with the full Crochet Reef in Los Angeles in 2008. Helle is eager to collect plastic bags from around the world to incorporate into the project – she is especially keen to receive colored bags as most plastic shopping bags are white and she’d like the Vortex to have flashes of color. Please follow the link below if you’d like to contribute your own plastic bags for this project. |
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Helle's Blog: Contributing Plastic Bags for the Rubbish Vortex: | ||||
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Tutorial in making Plastic Bag Yarn: Helle's Plastic Bag Things on Flickr: | ||||
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Preliminary sketch for the Rubbish Vortex by Helle Jorgensen (Sept 2007). |
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