Hyperbolic

Bricolage is what women do. It is about creating the links between people, institutions, history and time, and it is about making something wonderful from nothing and reclaiming things. It is also a word used in relation to research, which is both my work and my joy. So Bricolage is creativity and art and it is entirely female.

Hyperbolic crochet was something visualised and created by Margaret Wertheim,the science writer, and her sister and friends. http://ocean.si.edu/ocean-news/when-art-meets-science-hyberbolic-crochet-coral-reef?gclid=CKqf84ib2KoCFYpMpgodqzNC7w

It has something to do with maths and space and coral reefs. Suddenly crochet is about maths. Knitting has become cultic.
Women's art takes on a new identity. But what impresses me about it is that it represents a kind of space that cannot be visually represented in any way except crochet. Like bricolage, it is pieced together to produce the unexpected. I can create hyperbolic crochet because I have done it all my life ("what is that? Oh God not another hat?") but this is not so much about crochet as hyperbolic space.....the space is hidden within other spaces and it swirls and curls around. Time and black holes and outer space are also supposed to be like this. But the reason I am interested is because when I use this concept to think about research, I think in terms of the complex and intersecting patterns of intellectual influence between women (and someimes men).

Hyperbolic space then is about intellectual influence and the way that it is nested and hidden, whirling and swirling, fluid and colourful.

I want to use this space to write about the influences on my life, especially the books,
conversations and ideas that ebb around my days. I like the idea of having a conversation and hoping someone might be reading and thinking about the great and the trivial things that I am contemplating.