Video: Lacy eggs
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Waste-free production rules! Eating an egg is delicious. But to throw away the shell is already waste. What if you turn trash into a work of art? Suppose in delicate egg-shaped lace?
Artist Gary LeMaster has long been dedicated to bringing a second, much more beautiful life to eggshells. Not those pathetic pieces that remain on the table after the egg is barbarously smashed with a knife over a frying pan and cooked into an omelet or scrambled eggs. Egg lace is "prepared" from a whole shell, which is obtained only when raw white and yolk are carefully blown through tiny holes in the egg without damaging the fragile shell. When the material is ready, the master takes over. And this is what he finally gets after long hours of hard work.
Gary says that people who first see his work do not believe that all this is the most ordinary shell, and they ask what they are actually made of - plastic, plaster, wax or paper. Even the specific shape of the products cannot make them believe that the master is telling the truth. Whereas he has already held master classes more than once, where he talked about the intricacies of processing such a fragile material as eggshell.
The author calls his works "sculptures", and you can get to know his work better on the site of eggshell sculptures.
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