FABERGE EGG PROJECT

6 week project

The first major First Year Project was to make our own interpretation of a Faberge Egg.

Mine is based of an Ancient Grecian Urn. With the narrative qualities of Greek pottery so prominent throughout my research, I decided the exterior needed to tell a story. I chose the mythical story of Circe the sea witch, who turned the once-beautiful Scylla into a vicious sea monster with multiple heads, so these figures are depicted by the low relief on the outer side of the egg. The inside creates a diorama which shows the monster Scylla became. Finally, the 'urn' is presented as if washed up on the rocky shores of a beach after many years of being lost at sea. 

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Please click on the image to the left and click through the gallery images to see the finished model.