Highlights of the opening of HYPERBOLIC CROCHET CORAL REEF: A WOOLLY WONDER in March 2010 at the SCIENCE GALLERY, Trinity College, Dublin. Created and Curated by Margaret and Christine Wertheim of the Institute For Figuring in Los Angeles

One of the acknowledged wonders of the natural world, the Great Barrier Reef stretches along the coast of Queensland, Australia, in riotous profusion of colour and form unparalleled on our planet. But global warming and pollutants so threaten this fragile marvel it now faces devastation, along with reefs around the world. In homage to these disappearing treasures, Australian sisters Christine and Margaret Wertheim instigated a project to crochet a handmade reef, a woolly testimony that celebrates also a strange geometry realised throughout the oceanic realm.