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Paper (card)_Tube








It is a multifunctional yet simple object - impartial, with no hidden agendas and more than the sum of its atoms.



Perhaps a recycled card tube is to hold rolls of paper. Or, an acoustic mirror; focusing sound frequencies that travel through the air (medium). Maybe it is a megaphone or a telescope – an object that illustrates the physical attributes of the world we occupy.



You see, if you leave a tube with a child and their imagination, you discover; simplicity has many functions. Remember the cardboard box you played with as a child?

Such should be intent of your self expression, your contribution, your work; elegant and simple because it makes clear, observable sense.

It is fun!!!


Adults make reinforced structural components out of paper tubes;











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Unknown said…
Yes comrade I like to use my cardboard tube to talk to my greyhound which causes a lot of confusion but ultimately ends in her eating the tube and having fun. So its all good.

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