Eggcentric Art
CRAFT Magazine
Put any stock in an ancient Ukrainian myth, and technically, Paul Wirhun is saving the world one egg at a time. According to the Ukrainian-American artist, it was once believed that our fate depended solely on the crrafting of pysanky (pronounced PISS-ahn-kih) — those decorative and highly symbolic batiked eggs for which the Ukraine is so well known. As the story goes, an evil monster lives chained to a cliff. and because this monster is pacified seemingly only by pysanky, he sends his servants out annually to count the number of eggs decorated in the villages and surrounding countryside.
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