Stone Soup

The Story of Stone Soup is a tale of three soldiers coming home from war and stop by a village to see if they have anything to spare for them.  The village angered by other travelers looting/taking their stuff, become possessive of their belongings unwilling to share. The soldiers fill a pot with stone and water over a fire. Curious villagers come by and ask what they are doing. The soldiers tell them they are making stone soup which is a really mouth watering meal, except they would need only a small amount of ingredients   to make the soup complete. As more and more villagers look at this marvel, they too bring more to the pot, finally making a huge feast shared by the whole town.

The point of Stone Soup through a design perspective,  is that designers typically work together in order to create something extraordinary. Last Tuesday, the Design 1 class in Davis formed into groups, mixing all design/non-designs together to work together and create something out of nothing with items that a person brought from their home.  This project was not designed to have a plan process, where people would draw a concept before making, it basically creating something by just doing and adding one thing after another. As each person started creating random pieces slowly piecing things together, the randomness of the objects slowly became unified, creating some sort of form. 

Here our team headed by the mentor Noelle, started to create what looks like a figure resembling a human. The head pictured in white is made from a white lantern, the body made from fans, twigs for the arms, and other commonly found objects were put together  to make a sculpture, while using the natural surroundings of Davis such as the tree to be able to hang the object with a string. When looking at the enitre form and trying to understand the piece is basically up in the air and is subjective.