This piece was the first that I used egg shells to create, and it happened quite by accident. At the time I was painting in egg tempera, which required me to make my palette every morning by separating the yoke and mixing it with powdered pigments to make my paints. I would stack the shells on the edge of the kitchen sink until I got a stack of about six inches, and then started two new stacks. I ended up with what you see now - yet I didn’t see it at first, it was only later in the day that I glanced at it and saw it for what it had become. That was the “Genesis” for my exploration into eggs, other ideas just kept rolling out and hasn’t stopped. Eggs represent a life form, neither gender or species specific. This versatility, fragility of the shell, and beauty of it’s texture and color allows me to combine the eggs with other objects and situations creating representation of some very human feelings. The egg is an object that almost everyone on Earth is familiar with, and knows what it is from a very early age. After all, everyone knows what happens when you drop an egg.

Genesis