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2004: Egg Lady Challenge 1

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Challenge Egg 1

Jane Pollack's Original Egg -->

It's hard to tell with family. Do they like it in a "put it on the fridge" sort of way? Or are they sincerely aspiring to be sycophantic relatives of the Rich/Famous Artist someday?

Money is definitely a factor. At the time, I rarely talked to any family member even weekly. (Barring mutual boredom on IM.) However, my sister and possibly even my mother both called me when they received their glitzy "One at a Time" catalogs. Selling Pysanky for up to $480 apiece!

"Your eggs are as good. You could make a fortune." (Cue Daffy Duck bounding around "I'm rich! I'm rich!")

I took it as a challenge. To see if I had a steady enough hand to even do the designs. Only I have a lot of brown egg shells to work through, and I don't replace my dyes as often as proscribed. (Compared to a lot of other pysanky sites, just emptying the eggshells before I render the contents too toxic to eat makes me a bit of a rogue.)

I had a few eggs started before Christmas 2003, and then, rather inevitably, didn't even think about Pysanky until Easter 2004 loomed.

In conclusion, I'm no Jane Pollack. But I don't suck either. If I wanted to get serious and get the sexy electric Kistkas or egg lathes, the expense would likely oblige me to get more serious about marketing. Meanwhile, I'm happy to have it remain a hobby where I usually break even financially (and have content for tenney.org that won't embarrass my Pentecostal relatives who aren't so much into Nine Inch Nails and Tarot Cards.)


Original? er, Reproduction Batik by Julia
Group photos by Melissa
Comparison egg image mirrored from One at a Time.
See also Jane Pollack Online.

Sold at 6th Annual Somerville Museum Arts & Crafts Sale



Updated: November 2004 tenney.org