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Egg Soldiers for a Spitfire

Spitfire made from 6,500 egg cartons

by Jack Munro and Charlotte Austen

As part of Eggs for Soldiers, a long standing fund raising initiative for the charity help for heroes, hackney-based sculptors Jack Munro and Charlotte austen built a full scale – 12-meter long, 13-meter wide – sculpture of a Mark 1 Spitfire made from 6,500 Eggs for Soldiers cartons. The artwork was created as a feature piece of the march fourth event and was unveiled at the imperial war museum in duxford on march 3rd, 2013. The replica was constructed from a mixture of timber and steel framing, able to be broken down into 12 sections so as to be transported by lorry. CNC routing and laser cutting were mainly used to cut ribs recreating the planes iconic geometry. This skeleton was then skinned with fabric and covered with egg boxes.

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Egg Dance (de Vos)

Eierdans
after Maerten de Vos
anonymous print maker
publisher : Johannes Baptista Vrints, late 16th century

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The egg dance was a traditional Easter game involving the laying down of eggs on the ground and dancing among them whilst trying to break as few as possible. Another variation involved tipping an egg from a bowl, and then trying to flip the bowl over on top of it, all with only using one’s feet and staying within a chalk circle drawn on the ground. Although, as shown in many of its depictions in art, the pastime is associated with peasant villages of the 16th and 17th century, one of the earliest references to egg-dancing relates to the marriage of Margaret of Austria and Philibert of Savoy on Easter Monday in 1498. The event was described in an 1895 issue of American Magazine. [...]

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