Eggs

After looking at the pieces form the paint experimentation I really began to think about colour and liquids, but also about solid things which hold liquid.

Many vessels are fragile and breakable but none more so than the egg. I wondered what would happen if I painted the eggs solid exterior and then filled the interior with a contrasting colour or ink and then smashed it.

So I did just that. I painted the eggs with acrylic paint first.Draining the yolk and white from the eggs was much more laborious. I had to tap a small hole in the top of the egg and trickle it out slowly,then through the hole using a dropper I filled the shells with paint.

Because of the interesting form of the crumpled paper, I was thinking about folds. A surface we all walk upon all the time that folds is a stairs, so I lined a staircase with paper and placed a painted egg in the middle of each step.

I stood at the top of the stairs and walked down in each step, crushing each egg as I went. I videoed the process.

The eggs exploded when crushed and their contents splattered onto the white paper which I then took to Studio 2 to dry.

The mixing of the coloured shells and the paint inside made some beautiful shapes and patterns.