This artist builds coral reefs by hand

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By Amelia UrryApr 24, 2014, 8:01 am13 pts
It’s not easy to build a coral reef, which is why it usually takes millions of coral polyps and sponges and other organisms decades to build them up. Artist Courtney Mattison took on the job solo, while she was studying conservation biology in grad school at Brown and moonlighting in ceramics at Rhode Island…

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