If anyone were to waltz into the 3B, 3D Design classroom in the far right corner of the school, the sound of masking tape being unraveled and the sight of fidgeting students half plastered in tape would greet them.

Groups of students are manufacturing hollow life sized characters out of Saran wrap and tape. These figures are based off of work from a street artist named Mark Jenkins who puts his “Tape People” installations around cities to observe civilians’ reactions to them.

“Each group came up with its own approach to the project,” said 3D design teacher Callie Juhl, “Each piece has its own story.”

The method behind the complex tape individual is simple in theory. It begins with students posing in a certain position and being covered in Saran wrap. Then another student covers the area with two layers of masking tape. After the mold is secure, they cut the piece of Saran wrap away from the body and tape it back together. Repeating this step with different positions and areas of the body, eventually the student taped the forms into one hollow, cohesive character.

Each group had a different approach to the project. The ideas for the characters ranged between Spartan warriors, to people mid motion, to someone crashing from a window, to someone being carried into the sky by balloons as if from a Disney animation.

“If you’re creative with it, it can be pretty cool,” said Cooper Sansonetti.