*hen or egg? for the 03/26 issue of servus magazine i was commissioned & therefore got myself involved in myths & facts about the egg. 4 minutes or in my case 7, it took me a bit longer serving the egg tales without missing ingredients. back as a countryside kid i enjoyed the fact that on some weekends there was a breakfast egg. i aimed for a pet, so i took an egg from the pantry & hided it beneath my bed. my grandmother found it explaining me some basics about life. later my sister & me got some wild & house ducklings. the house of my childhood was next to a little brook. they had a stable selfmade wooden home & every day my sister & me picked them up from their swimming adventures & brought them to bed, unfortunately some of them got to know the fox & beside the fact that I love & miss my grandmother so much each & every day – she prepared one of the ducks as meal reasoning that it was a bit ill anyway. being raised on the countryside was a harsh intro when it comes to life & death. i still don’t want to miss the easter egg battles, searching nests & rolling egg games with broomsticks. back then i did not question why everyone is so much into this object. we brought eggs, bread & salt to church in a beautiful basket. i always thought the consecrated eggs will win the tapping as they are very holy & therefore invincible. decades later, some of the myths & tales unchained while learning that much about eggs, from the impossibility & trials to find the shapes formula, the meaning of colors, the variety of sizes, myths of creation. beholding things from different angles without doing the egg dance. sometimes things get very surreal like dali paintings or searching ovals in the genious creations of hieronimus bosch. world is an fabergé egg, never know only a guess what could be found inside. so beside the many shades of yellow this project was sunny side up. a huge merci to isabel, isabella, tino, maria dorner for the text & the team of servus magazine for this beautiful project. ♥︎
the collages contain.
a collection of creative commons imagery partly provided by servus magazine.
servus magazine creative direction.
chief editor | andreas kornhofer
art direction | isabel neudhart-haitzinger
art direction i.V. | isabella russ & tino liebmann
photo editor | isabella russ
article | maria dorner
collage artwork | nita.
