See you Wednesday: some thoughts

Dividing the labor is a good way to get started.

Wide masking tape  or duck tape is good for joining cardboard. Also consider bringing a stapler, and hot glue sticks (the small ones)

Weaving cardboard can get you a strong yet flexible form.

To get strips (like ribbons). Paper on the roll can be cut down  to sections on the band saw and unwound to
give you ribbons.

A definition of sculpture for our time.Excerpt from the magazine Sculpture November1998 Vol.17 No. 9

by Donald Kuspit  

Sculpture, like art in general, has become an amorphous concept, ill-defined and perhaps undefinable—yet another case of art-as-epistemological-problem. Anything that occupies space, and doesn’t hang on a wall, is “sculpture” or “sculptural.” The days when, with the English critic Adrian Stokes, one could make a nice neat distinction between three-dimensional objects made by carving and those made by modeling are over. Now, any object that sprawls in space, has physical presence, and manages to hold its own against architecture is sculpture. And yet the root of sculpture since antiquity has been the body’s existence in space. To be emotionally credible, what we call sculpture must evoke or in some way engage the archaic presence of the body in space. It must suggest the primitive experience of being a body in space, and convey the vicissitudes of the body in time. It must suggest what it feels like to live one’s body and how one’s body lives its own space and the space in which
it moves.

Read full article here:
http://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag98/german/sm-germn.shtml