Bead Creatures by Vonda N. McIntyre
Vonda famously made beaded and crochet Sea Creatures, including Jellyfish, anemones, nudibranchs, and marine flatworms. She contributed to the Smithsonian’s Exhibit of TheIFF’s Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef and participated in the Crochet Coral Reef.
Many Clarion West graduates have received her yarn “sea creatures” or “coral brains,” which she crocheted every year for the class as stress relievers.
“Vonda McIntyre was a very special and much admired contributor to the Crochet Coral Reef project. For our project she crafted a series of exquisite beaded jelly-fish creatures, each a small miracle of feminine fancywork. We had been aware of Vonda as a writer of feminist science fiction and so were honored and bemused when out of the blue she sent us some of her fantastical critters. They also fit in with the lineage of her wondrous book The Sun and the Moon, about a sea-monster that gets captured and taken to the court of the Sun King, Loius XIV. These many unexpected intersectionings illuminate an ethos at the heart of her work and ours: to wit, that disciplinary silos can be broken and that the universe is entangled more and stranger ways than is first apparent.”
– Margaret Wertheim, Co-Founder and Curator for the Crochet Coral Reef Project
2006 Octopus
2007 Jellyfish
2007 Marine Flatworms
Anemones
Nudibranches
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