Stone Soup

On Tuesday, our design group was assigned to create something out of nothing.  This is further detail means, we took scraps/trash materials that did not have any correlation and designed a model.  At first we had trouble narrowing down our ideas to one central one, but we ended up focusing on and creating two abstract people.  Our inspiration began from looking through different magazines and the various models within.  Originally we wanted to create a mountain with snow and began storming ideas with snowboarders and such.  We began by taking yellow cellophane wrap and stuffing it with crumpled pieces of magazine papers.  As we were molding and shaping the “mountain” we began to tie off the ends, thus accidently creating the formation of a person.  Our intention was to not originally have a person, but our mountain gave life to a human shape.  From there we used nature to create arms on one of the people.  We found long branches and broke them into two parts, giving the illusion of arms.   On this particular person we focused on the body portion, rather than the face.  We found a picture of a man’s chest and stomach and pasted it onto the torso of the cellophane person.  For the second person, we focused on the face.  The face was constructed from a red gift bag and various magazine cutouts of models.  The people resembled an abstract form of people, but completely encompassed the creativity and individuality of each group member.  At the very end we propped the two models against a building wall and gave three-dimensional affect by adding boxes to create a barrier between them. This project inspired by Stone Soup truly gave life to an endless imagination of creativity within our group.  The willingness to work with one another allowed for ideas to be bounced off from one to another, creating the appearance of more refined details in our final display.  The open-mindedness allowed for positive change throughout our project.  For example, the tying of the ends of the original “mountain” gave us an entirely different design path, which we embodied fully.