Pictures of Tread Erosion installed in the MFA exhibition (http://cdt.parsons.edu/show2009/)

image by Doris Yee

image by Claudio Midolo
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check out what this sculpture artist does with ordinary objects.  so amazing!
styrofoam cups

paper plates

more tara donovan art here.

this piece was built in sections and then connected onsite. (a possible solution to the size constraint I am faced with by the laser cutter)

on a side note:
i watched an interview of Maya Lin where she was asked how she names her pieces.
i was struck by her answer that names come to her after a piece is created.  i think this will also be the case with my piece.

the thing i love most about brian dettmer’s work is the variety of shapes and carvings he does.  his choice of books really appeal to me too because I grew up looking up words in a giant dictionary and maps in large almanacs like the one below. (shout out to Joana for the link!)

made from romance novels (above)

medical books

Still wanting to do a sculptural element I started thinking what do i have access to that is cheap and bountiful?
i had 2 thoughts: printer paper ($300 worth at New School) and cardboard.
here’s some cardboard sculptural precedents that i find inspiring.

rip curl canyon by ball-nogues studio
* I found that they got help from a fabrication studio (Pylon Technical) to do the 3D renderings.  It looks like there might be a Ruby script add-on to Sketchup (su2stl.rb) that will create .stl (3D) output.

lipstick by Phoebe Washburn

untitled bronx by Phoebe Washburn