This egg was made for a friend who has been a wonderful training coach for running the Flying pig marathon. Last saturday was the 20 mile run (day be fore easter this year – April 1). The metal filigree brass colored cross was purchased at michaels, which I bent and shaped to fit an egg. The euphorbia milii flower (two red petals and a yellow center) is called the christ plant and it carries a whopping number of ugly large thorns… actually an amazing number of thorns. It does grow in the middle east and perhaps (legend says) was the plant plaited into a crown of thorns. All i now is that whomever made that crown also got seriously injured.
These photos are not that great, but you can see the metal cross and the flower cane on the back… and the light yellow cane behind the cross had fluorescent yellow powder kneaded into it (btw the powder makes the clay a little less fun to work with…. it feels like baking soda had been added to prevent sticking… LOL) bit after just a few hours in the kitchen window… it did fluoresce in the dark.
