Egg blueprints for a previous project

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As we reach the end of September, it may seem strange to be posting about a traditional art form that generally revolves around the festivities of Easter. Even though none of my egg creations have had religious foundations behind them, I’ve still always worked on them in the springtime around holy week because that’s the accepted time to be fashioning and gifting “Easter eggs.” Being at Xandari for the past several months, however, where the gift shop could always use another little shelf of locally-crafted artwork souvenirs, I’ve been thinking about making a round of trial eggs to put up for sale and see how it goes. After all, we could dedicate any profits to more artwork supplies for the Tacacorí school or another good local cause. 

Above are the results of an afternoon’s brainstorming for design ideas that I could use on eggs to put in the shop. At first I started with the pun of “breaking the yoke (yolk) of such-and-such” because I enjoy that type of silly wordplay, but as you can see, the phrases quickly got a lot more serious than that. Without trying to be too self-important, I do think having a little message under some sort of design would be a good touch, and any pun could keep it a little more light-hearted. What do you think? What kind of design and/or phrase would you want to see on some souvenirs from Costa Rica, apart from the ubiquitous Pura Vida?

*For those who are curious, the wing-eared elephant logo is from the Keralan design shop Via Kerala, which often collaborates with Raxa Collective in India.