Stone Patterns






Sprocket


Kelly, Michelle, Tracey, Stephanie and Bryan

Infinite:
 
The definition of Infinite, according to the Oxford dictionary is:
"limitless in space, extent, or size".
 
Our symbol, resembling the number eight turned sideways, represents for our group, the everlasting cycle of life. We correlated the limitless portion of the definition with our belief that the progression through life is endless. We believe that each generation passes on their rituals and traditions, which turns into a cycle of performing rites and therefore makes the rites endless/limitless.







Rock Stars


Our group chose to do a wolf for our rock culture for a number of reasons. All of the rocks put together represent everything that makes up a living being. The rocks represent things such as characteristics of an individual, memories, talents, maybe interests, intelligence, etc, as well as different strengths and characteristics that create the living being and who they are. We thought that this was really interesting because each rock was painted in a way that symbolized the individual that painted the rock. Each rock represents each individual. So, we put all of those rocks together that represent people and symbolized something important about them or their lives and combined together they make up a living being which is what the wolf is.  Even us as people may carry a variety of different characteristics and things such as talents, intelligence, knowledge, etc. that we have been taught by our friends, family, and peers,  and these things that we have learned or inherited from people in our lives or maybe even genetically makes us who we are as a living being.






The Rockettes


“The Rockette’s” Write up

 

We chose the happy face as a symbol to represent a gesture done by people around the world to convey a greeting or to convey their happiness. People around the world do not necessarily all smile to show their happiness or to welcome people, but each culture has their own way to do show this. Another reason we used the happy face is because “happiness” or the “pursuit of happiness” is a common end for all humanity, and that end is what ties us all together as the human race. 




The Stones



Our Rock formation:

The Stones & their Mick Jagger

    Everyone is made up of different things which make us who we are, it could be our passions, beliefs, or our interests that make us unique.  When we each painted our own rocks we each put some of that uniqueness into those rocks, putting a little bit of ourselves into them.  It is for that reason that our group chose to make a figure of a person.  We felt that if we are each made up of something unique and if our rocks help to symbolize that, then making the person figurine out of those rocks would represent the uniqueness of our class.  Just like how each person is different so is each group of people and we just wanted to represent our class uniqueness through our rock formation.

Denise, Jesse and Joel (& Meagan)



Reba



Rock Formation ~ Inukshuk

Group Reba: Leanne Pollock, Alex Brown, Lindsay Cole, Jake Matellic, Ramadan Mussa 

 

Our Rock group Reba decided to create an inukshuk pattern from all of the rocks our class members painted. We picked the inukshuk pattern because we thought it would be one symbol that most of our classmates would recognize, the inukshuk is a stone figure typically made by the Inuit people. We also choice the inukshuk pattern because there are different forms for different purposes such as: “to show directions to travelers, to warm of impending dangers, to mark a place of respect, or to act as helpers in the hunting of caribou.”  Inukshuks have been made all over the world but mainly only standing in the Arctic. However when our group talked about why we found inukshuks the best fit for our group we mainly talked about how often we see small figures of inukshuks in random places either along the highway, in people’s front yards, on old bridge beams in the middle of the water, on the tops of mountains, and one group member even seeing one in a tree. We thought about how each one of us saw such figures but attached different meaning to each one we saw, this made us think about all the different people in our class and how each person can look at something so simple and common but attach such different conclusions.









The Flintstones



Michelle Johnson, Adam Normand, David Turner (“”)

Rock Formation: Dollar sign

We chose to make the dollar symbol for our formation because we know that the all-mighty dollar represents a lot of things in our society. Money is significant to our culture, as well as many other cultures because it represents power, control, opportunities, goals, future, class, food, happiness, success, a measure of wealth, etc. People worship the dollar and they strive to collect more and more to gain all of the those things. Money has the power to create and destroy and it’s not even a living thing. We feel money is something our culture depends on and it is widely recognized.















Eye of the Beholder




“Eye of the Beholder”

Guided Stone Rite

 

            Our group decided, after talking amongst ourselves, that we wanted to perform a rite for ourselves and the class that would help us build a stronger sense of community. We wanted to share our stories about why we decided to paint what we did, and wanted to hear others do the same.

We decided to break the class up into random groups and ask them to direct themselves in sharing, so that the rite would be guided, rather than hierarchical; we wanted people to take ownership for their own roles in this ritual, rather than being told what to do. For this same reason, we wanted each individual to place their own stone in their own way, and used thread to tie the stones together to make our own symbol, something that has relevance to our particular class culture and no others, and exists as it does only because of each individual choice among the group.