City of Balanced Eggs
Posted by Derek C.F. Pegritz
No, it’s not a new book by Jeff VanDerMeer or China Mieville—it’s literally a cityscape made up of balanced eggs. That’s right, eggs.
There’s an overview of the entire project below the jump here.
I am utterly enthralled by works of art such as this. Not so much by the art as by the artist. What kind of ineffable patience does a piece of work like this require of the artist? This fella simply must have achieved a state of pure zen “no-thought” in the process of making this masterwork. As I’ve always said, art leads to Enlightenment.
Stacking Eggs Into a City [Newruls.com]
Categories: China, Artists, Photography, Art
Posted at 3:32 pm on November 11, 2007
7 Comments -
Y’know, this is cool and all, but seeing it I can’t help but imagine the messiest Godzilla movie ever.
Comment by etho — November 11, 2007 @ 4:00 pm
Y’know, the eggs may be stacked into a city, but the entire shape they form is actually that of an old Chinese 50 RMB bill
Comment by Maniacman — November 11, 2007 @ 4:11 pm
This reminds me of the garbage piles which supposedly cast an amazing silhouette. People miss the artistic message and concentrate on “the unbelievable skill” it would have taken to create it. So instead of art, we have a hoax. And probably not one the artist intended.
The eggs in the top picture are visibly coated and probably glued. Given the bridges, they are most certainly attached and not merely balanced. The bottom picture reveals grid lines, indicating the exibit is taken apart for transportation.
What I think is brilliant is how it’s a City at the viewer’s perspective, and at the macro level an Economy emerges. Sure, it could have been built from wood or Legos, but the choice of eggs speaks of how fragile and precarious the whole structure is.
[Thumbs down to Newruls.com for including unrelated egg balancing photos]
Comment by Darren — November 11, 2007 @ 6:07 pm
Hard Boiled Wonderland?
Comment by Susannah — November 12, 2007 @ 8:43 am
The problem with intricate sculpture done in an inherently fragile medium is that it brings out the destructive urge in me. It might be a wonderful piece of art, but I just want to stomp all over it, giggling with childish glee, yolk flying every which way.
Comment by CJ — November 12, 2007 @ 11:28 pm
@ CJ
Ah HA! YOU’RE the one that romped in the sand mandala last May.
Comment by Evil Jim — November 14, 2007 @ 6:59 am
Anyone know who performed this work?
Comment by Matthew — November 14, 2007 @ 5:04 pm