Friday Egg: Babel

Friday Egg today comes from a dream I had. I don't remember much except layers and layers of writing and language and the biggest was a sort of brick red. Because it comes from a dream I haven't got much to say about the meaning of it except to say that I named it "Babel". The eggshell itself took the dye in a spotty and interesting way. It was pretty much unprocessed in any way beyond cleaning so the texture really shows is the brick colored layer.

I waxed the first layer on a white goose eggshell then dyed it Brick Red (UGS) and waxed the inner portion of the writing. Next I dyed to egg black (UGS) and wrote one of the two smaller texts, then washed back to white and wrote the other layer of text and dyed it the final color Deep Blue Sea. (PUSA)

Happy Friday!

Friday Egg: Poppies Blueprint

I was thinking about the glorious, colorful randomness of a flower garden and how that riot of color springs from a tiny little nondescript black or brown seed. I imagined what a seed might look like if it's function could be seen as a blueprint or plan. For this egg the ground is made up of the organized clockwork of a seed. It contains the colors that will be in the flowers as well as the machinery to make it grow. Then above is the flower that emerges from that organized machine. Kind of the same way I create an egg when I think about it. I plot out the design with pencil and am very organized and precise in my measurements but what you see in the end is the color, form and design.

Happy Friday!