The Woodstock Art Reef Project exhibited A Coral Invocation at the National Arts Festival last week. The mass of colour and texture, spanning metres of the venue in the Rhodes Environmental Learning Research Centre, adjacent to the Botanical Gardens, is made entirely of crocheted wool.
The Woodstock Art Reef Project exhibited A Coral Invocation at the National Arts Festival last week. The mass of colour and texture, spanning metres of the venue in the Rhodes Environmental Learning Research Centre, adjacent to the Botanical Gardens, is made entirely of crocheted wool.
Endless patience over hours and days has produced an array of intricate patterns that serve as lifelike models of colourful coral.
Supported by donations from the Foschini brand, the project hopes to raise environmental awareness and highlight the affects of coral bleaching.
One of the founding members of the project, Leonie Hofmeyr-Juritz, explains that only few degrees of change in temperature adversely affect corals.
These temperature changes altered the acidity level of the coral, thus bleaching it of its colour.
Photo: Dez Benoit
