I'm not very experienced but I've done a string piece with my flouro collaborator. I'll put a picture up in this tribe's pics along with pics of our tapestry art.

We have general ideas for our projects and just develop them as we build. We were going to make a giant piece Square with an X in the middle but various logistical set backs morphed the project into something much cooler than we had planned. The first modification was to make it into a diamond but we were using wood and the diamond seemed waaay too challenging. So we changed it to two parallel triangles connected by struts at the joints....until we realized that all the screws at the joints wouldn't work so we switched the struts to connect the triangles between the joints. Yeah, carpentry (specifically MATH) and me have a long conflicted relationship.

It ended up medium sized because we were dead set on using metal hooks and spacing them close together (about an inch apart). These are extremely expensive ime. Cost us over $100 in hooks alone! When we put the string on the resulting structure, we got this unplanned but mesmerizing triangular weave effect in the center!

I examined some pieces at Burning Man and noticed that the hooks were spaced farther apart (about a half foot if I remember right). The structures were also made with PVC pipe painted black so you can take apart the pieces for transport.

We're planning to build some large PVC structures in the next year or two.
--Zay

Check out Andres Amador's work at www.analogia.org -- he did the string art at the Opulent Temple camp at BM this year.