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Nonfiction Built with love from garbage cans TEN HUTS By Jill Sigman 212 pp. Wesleyan Reviewed by Marty Carlock I liked this book. But I have to say right off, it’s not for everyone. For one thing, there’s no plot. Jill Sigman is a dancer, artist and a PhD in philosophy. The book contains essays and photographs about her Hut Project from her and from experts in anthropology, art history, performance studies, philosophy and dance. I wish I had seen one of the Huts. Sigman builds them of found materials, whatever she finds lying around the margins of whatever space she has been allotted. “The huts are a labor of love, perhaps a seemingly hopeless one…the search for materials – in dumpsters, garbage cans on street corners, under overpasses, at waste transfer stations…The many hours of piling, wrapping, tying, weaving and balancing of objects…” Then “undoing knots, sorting materials and giving away objects at the end of each hut… All of these actions conspire to create a space where there ...