Stone Soup

Rubber gloves + shoebox + paper clips + tissue paper + dictionary = an artful, interesting, and cohesive design?

Put eight design students together and give them one hour to make something with a mosh-pit of materials and objects. This assignment gave our group a chance to get to know one another and to collaborate a piece by using a different assortment of materials.

Our group thought about what topic or main idea to focus our piece on and we thought it would be fitting to relate it to Davis. Inspiration was found on one of our group member's t-shirt, and we all eventually agreed on creating an octopus to represent Davis' KDVS radio station.

We started putting some materials together and let the materials fit together in different placements. At first, we started with an almost exact plan for what we wanted to do. However, we realized that we should think less about the actual figure we were trying to portray, and just place things here and there, where each of us thought it would look good. This let us all have a part in what went on with the project and it helped let our art piece speak out more as a depiction of what we used to make it. The project became less about using the materials to make the form of something, but letting the supplies or “ingredients” speak for themselves.

The story Stone Soup, by Maria Brown, reflected a sense of coming together with different parts and making something that is totally unique.

(all photos courtesy of Perry Sanesanong)