Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Does Kyle answer the ultimate question? No not that one, the chicken and egg one ;-) We'll leave it up to you to decide. But there's no doubt in our minds that he is a sculptor with infinite patience and great taste in materials. He painstakingly selected and glued the perfect range of shell fragments and colours to create a delicate sculpture with plenty of character. Kyle is a Brighton based designer specialising in hand crafted models, set design and art direction. 

Title: Which Came First?
Artist: Kyle Bean

 Image courtesy of the artist.

How many eggs does it take to build a city?

Around 10,000 apparently. A friend recently sent us these fantastic egg sculpture images and we could not wait to share them with you. The web is full of posts on the images but many are blindly regurgitating several fictional accounts, one even claiming they are stones not eggs! It took a little while to track down the original artist and the facts, and now it's our pleasure to tell you the story. 

Accumulating Eggs is another masterpiece from Weng Peijun's modern art lab, and reflects the artist's insight into emerging social and cultural issues in a rapidly modernising China.

The project was started at the end of 2004 and took almost a year to complete. He must have eaten a lot of omelettes that year! Around ten thousand chicken eggs and slightly fewer duck and quail eggs had their contents removed and were used to make the miniature model city. Viewing from above, you see an image on a 50-yuan banknote. The title of the project apparently has its origins in an ancient Chinese idiom that dates back to the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC), “as precarious as a pile of eggs”. Every egg was first cleaned and sprayed with shiny, high-gloss gum to preserve their appearance then patiently glued together.

The exhibition was displayed at the Guangdong Museum Of Art in China, and also at an avant-garde exhibit in Groninger Museum in the Netherlands.

Title: Accumulating eggs / Weng Peijun's terrific new world
Artist: Weng Peijun (Feng)
Media: Chicken / duck / bird eggs, wood, glue, varnish
Size: 400 x 800 x 90 cm, 2005

Source: ArtLinkArt Interview, Artist's Gallery

Stunning sculpted eggs

Brian Baity began carving in 2005 when he purchased a high speed carving tool from a hobby store. This is not to say that he found art at that time, as he has dabbled in drawing and painting since a young age. While enlisted in the US Air Force, Brian attended a few freshman art classes and found a love for sculpture. Recently he rediscovered his love of art and an appreciation for working with his hands. Below you will find a tiny sample of his extraordinary work with goose eggs.

Visit his official site for more. 

Images courtesy of the artist.