The round and oblong shape of egg make it one of the most
beautiful structures met in nature. Symbol of life, it incarnates
the beginning of every thing. Considered by many cultures against
the bad diabolic eye, to move away the thunderbolt or to cure
sicknesses.
We often finds eggs of ostriches hang in churches and mosques in the Middle-East and in Africa.
The egg of ostrich, currently the largest of the world (it can represent until a thirty of chicken eggs!), is very solid and radically different by its qualities and characteristics from all other eggs. This egg gives a strange impression of exoticism with its more or less hailed surface of small holes and the subtle polish of its ivory colored shell.
Its 16 to 18cm height and its diameter of approximately 14cm (42 to 44cm circumference) give me a very nice surface to paint.