STONE SOUP

              

                Last Tuesdays Stone soup activity was pretty interesting. We were told to bring any arts crafts materials or anything we have around the house that would be an interesting addition to the “soup”. I just recently moved up here so I didn’t have any art materials to bring. I after a furious search all over my apartment, the ingredients that I ended up bringing are a bunch of colorful notecards, pipe cleaners and disposable spoons/forks. Armed with a bunch of random materials, then we were told to create something using the materials that we brought as inspiration. At first, my group and I were just throwing around ideas to see what we can make. Since our ingredient were random and limited, it was pretty hard to come up with an idea then try to create from scratch. We were heading in the wrong direction from the start but eventually figured out that we need to let the items that we brought, steer the direction of the project.

                The final product…Mr. Fredricks the octopus. We got the idea from looking at Christine’s shirt, which had an octopus that was holding something in each tentacle. The octopus was actually a good choice since there were 8 of us in the group, we can decorate our own tentacle with whatever we want. This made the piece a bit more personal since we all contributed to the final product. It was difficult to put together the octopus with all the random stuff that we got but at least the main idea of our project was clear to us. Sure, you definitely wouldn’t be able to guess that our humble octopus and his baby octopus scene is a depiction of daily student life in Davis but who’s counting anyway. All that matters is that we all came together, crafted an idea, and delivered as best as we can.

     Stay classy Mr. Fredricks