Ms. Wertheim: One of the things about the reef project that I feel is important is that it's a constructive response to a devastating problem. I think most people, as I am, are completely freaked out about the problem of global warming. What can we do? Can we do anything? And the reef project — the Crochet Coral Reef project is a metaphor, and it goes like this: if you look at real corals, a head of coral is built by thousands of individual coral polyps working together. Each coral polyp is a tiny insignificant little critter with almost no power of its own. But when billions of coral polyps come together, they can build the Great Barrier Reef, the largest living thing on earth and the first living thing that you can see from outer space.
The Crochet Coral Reef is a human analog of that. These huge coral reef installations that we build with communities are built by hundreds and sometimes thousands of people working together. So the project capitulates, in human action, the power and greatness of what corals themselves are doing. And I think the metaphor of the project is, look what we can do together. We humans, each of us are like a coral polyp. Individually, we’re insignificant and probably powerless. But together, I believe we can do things. And I think the metaphor of the project is we are all corals now.
And the first of the pix I took on my most-recent trip to visit Pam, 11.April.2013 (can it be that long ago?). The trip was to have been in Feb. that year, but we had a blizzard that weekend. So I got to see the blossoming cherry trees in D.C. for the first time (at least for moi).
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| Inside the Torpedo Factory where Pam (center of picture) teaches & makes art. |
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| Jefferson memorial, I think. |
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| Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial. |
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