Yesterday, New York shed its winter vibe and officially welcomed in spring with 275 egg-shaped works of art. The eggs are scattered over the five boroughs and are waiting to be discovered by you.
With designs from a star-studded list of artists creatives (everyone from Jeff Koons to Ronnie Wood, Bruce Weber to Carolina Herrera) a few have clocked into the eggs symbolism of cosmic potential and rebirth. Here are a few which capture exactly that. Compiled by: Sophie Teakle. Images: Maverick Inman.
Oliver Halsman Rosenberg – Upper West Phoenix
“The Universe is made of vibrations manifested as matter or sound or light. All is vibration, and my egg symbolically contains the vibrations of a new cosmos. This feeling of new creation and potential is visually depicted with atmospheric abstract passages of metallic colors emerging and fading into darkness, all with a calligraphic pattern overlaid alluding to vibrations and geometric structures that emerge from them.”
Williams Eadon – Monas Hieroglyphica.
“As a student of the occult, paganism, and metaphysics, I have often been drawn to the mystery of alchemy. The symbolic egg has consistently been included in the drawings and musings of alchemist practitioners. My intention with the project was to work with these images and my knowledge of these realms in order to create my very own personal Cosmic Egg. Must be placed facing North.”
Sarah Elise Hall – Bella Roca.
“Bella Roca (Beautiful Rock) was inspired by the name of a meteorite that hit the earth just over a hundred years ago in Mexico. Meteorites and asteroids represent mystery and our human beginnings on a fundamental level. An egg is a symbol for beginnings as well, and a mystery in the sense that it is a life in the process of unfolding. It represents potential.”
Myla Seabrook – Mulyin.
“Combining ‘multiverse’ theory with the duality of the yin-yang symbol this egg conveys ‘infinite possibilities’, the idea of multiple yet miraculous and perfect outcomes being well suited to an egg. Shades of black and white are representative of one’s ever-changing place in the grand scheme of things, while retaining balance. Transparent circles of gold are a nod to nature’s tendency to come full-circle.”
Oliver Jeffers – Everywhere Not on Earth (sort of).
Oliver Jeffers has become well-known for his hand-painted maps of earth featuring his distinctive handwriting, painted onto wood. His egg continues this theme, this time by looking up and out. ‘Everywhere not on Earth (sort of)’ is a map of the star constellations and planets from New York at that particular time, September 8th 1664, when New Amsterdam became New York.
Elyn Zimmerman – The Cosmic Egg.
“Today’s cosmological models say that 13.8 billion years ago the entire mass of the universe was compressed into a gravitational singularity, nicknamed The Cosmic Egg, from which the universe expanded to it’s current state following The Big Bang. Evidence to support this has come from the discovery and mapping of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation by the Planck Institute and ESO agency. Their 2013 map of this most ancient energy has been the inspiration for my contribution to the Faberge Big Egg Hunt.”
For more information take a trip to the website Thebigegghunt.org and download the app for a chance to win a Faberge Pendant.
And if you find one of the eggs haunting your dreams, every work of art is up for auction at Paddle8.com while the top 45 will be auctioned at a party (theme: English Country Garden on Acid) at Sotheby’s on April 22.
