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Challenge Egg 1
Jane
Pollack's Original Egg -->
It's hard to tell with family. Do they like it in a "put it on the
fridge" sort of way? Or are they sincerely aspiring to be sycophantic
relatives of the Rich/Famous Artist someday?
Money is definitely a factor. At the time, I rarely talked to any
family member even weekly. (Barring mutual boredom on IM.) However, my
sister and possibly even my mother both called me when they received
their glitzy "One at
a Time" catalogs. Selling Pysanky for up to $480 apiece!
"Your eggs are as good. You could make a fortune." (Cue Daffy Duck
bounding around "I'm rich! I'm rich!")
I took it as a challenge. To see if I had a steady enough hand to even
do the designs. Only I have a lot of brown egg shells to work through,
and I don't replace my dyes as often as proscribed. (Compared to a lot
of other pysanky sites, just emptying the eggshells before I render the
contents too toxic to eat makes me a bit of a rogue.)
I had a few eggs started before Christmas 2003, and then, rather
inevitably, didn't even think about Pysanky until Easter 2004 loomed.
In conclusion, I'm no Jane Pollack. But I don't suck either. If I
wanted to get serious and get the sexy electric Kistkas or egg lathes,
the expense would likely oblige me to get more serious about marketing.
Meanwhile, I'm happy to have it remain a hobby where I usually
break even financially (and have content for tenney.org that won't
embarrass my Pentecostal relatives who aren't so much into Nine Inch
Nails and Tarot Cards.)
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