"Stone Soup"

"Stone Soup" by Marcia Brown illustrated the achievements of being able to bring in different kinds of materials to create a new worthwhile product. Our group assignment on Tuesday was to bring in different art materials to create our own rewarding product. Although strangers, my group was able to bring in different items ranging from art supplies to sewing materials and crafting scraps to make our own "Stone Soup." We did not literally create soup, but we were able to make our very own product with what we had.
My group was able to come up with creating a person out of all our materials and scraps.  We began with the head and used a plastic Nike bag. We stuffed the bag with a lot of white printing paper to make the head more three-dimensional. Then, we decided to wrap the plastic bag with a silver-colored tissue paper so the head would not have Nike printed all over it. Our "person" was able to hook onto a clothes hanger and attach to a rectangular cardboard box to connect him to his body. We were able to create his arms and legs out of paper and cover his cardboard box body with a t-shirt someone brought in. We were able to be creative with him by designing him to be a person crossing his legs as he leans on the ledge with his arms crossed. We also had rainbow string to work with and used it to create his very stylish hairdo. My group also got lucky with having heart-shaped gems that we used as his eyes and a rubber-band as his mouth. In the end our result was really rewarding. Everyone was really proud of what we accomplished together. With our limited resources and  how each and every person came from a different background, we were able to put our heads together to make our creation: Dessie (name given by Professor Housefield).

Design creations from a single mind would probably be great, but possibly even better when eight minds are at work. I believe that design creations have minds behind it rather than one particular head working on the piece. In my opinion, whether it is inspiration from others or the help of others to create one art-piece, designs seemingly end up better with more than one brain at work.