​JEGGS | 薛志蛋雕

 

I worked as an engineer in China and I arrived with my family in New Zealand in the late 1995s.  One morning at the local library, I was strucked by images published in a magazine of an individual that carved 370 triangles on a goose egg- and that is where my interest germinated. 
 
I fell in love with this hobbie due to the complexity and the idea that each individual egg has their own challenges- namly due to the brittle properties of an egg. For example, a chicken egg has a skin thickness of 0.3mm-0.4mm.  Therefore, to carve patterns or holes require a length period of undisrupted attention- and the artwork can easily be destroyed at the last minute.  I have carved on a variety of eggs; budgie eggs, quail eggs, chicken eggs, duck eggs, emu eggs and ostrich eggs.  
 
Recently, I retired from my work as an eletronics engineer and decided to further persue in my hobbies-directing my time and energy to this passion, in hopes that one day I will become someone else's inspiration.  

 

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薛志生于中国福建福州，一九九五年携家人移民新西兰，现居住新西兰奥克兰。蛋雕爱好始于一九九七年，后因工作忙而终止。二零一一年，重拾旧趣至今。

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