Stone Soup

This past Wednesday the students of Design 1 were asked to bring arts and crafts items to class and with those items we were to create an artistic display. Our group created a web of color and texture.

 We came about this project by laying out all of our materials on the grass. Second, we choose a structure as our foundation in which we would exhibit our project. This foundation was a tree outside of Haring Hall. Next, some of our group members intertwined ribbon and string around the trunks of the trees while the rest of us began to construct items that we would set in between the ribbon. In the entire process we did not use inspiration from our lives or nature around us. We did what felt right at the moment and thus the outcome of our project was a web of color and texture.

The Stone Soup project was inspired by the book Stone Soup by Marcia Brown. This is an old folk tale in which three hungry soldiers trick a village into feeding them. They did this by asking for small food items such as spices to add to their stone soup. A villager agreed to bring them what they asked and as more and more villagers became curious about their concoction they too began to bring them food items for their soup. Eventually, the soup was complete and the soldiers as well as the villagers enjoyed a feast. This is similar to our stone soup project, we all brought things to add to our project and created a wonderful array of color and texture that we all enjoyed looking at.