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These gorgeous eggs were borrowed, with the exception of two that were gifted to me long ago.
Easter is far off, but the tradition of using pysanky eggs for holiday ornaments is still a practice among some people, and I love how wonderfully festive and appropriate some of these eggs are for the holidays. It's my goal in the new year to try my hand at some. For now I am enjoying photographing these to help honor this beautiful tradition that will be preserved in part with puzzles and photos- still beautiful to look at, and a fair bit less fragile for the littles, too.Have you ever done pysanka, or do you know someone who does do it?
#pysanka #pysanky #ukrainianeggs #photography #MastoArt #eastereggs #easter
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When I was a teenager my hometown #CommunityEducation offered a class in making #UkrainianEggs. Since the eggs stay intact, the first step is to inspect them with a flashlight to make sure there are no hairline cracks. Eventually, the inside dries out. The design is drawn with wax, which blocks the dye. The dyes are applied from lightest to darkest, ending with black. When you melt off the wax, all of the colors pop out! I have no pictures. My eggs lasted for years, but are no more.
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Art for this evening. Was just serendipitously reminded of Roz Chast’s incredible Pysanky elsewhere on my feed. I wasn’t aware of her work in this medium until this past year, and had thought of her craft primarily through the lens of a subscriber to The New Yorker.
I think they’re wonderful.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/03/18/roz-chasts-pysanky/