wednesday's words, wonderings, and wanderings

One woman has answered he age old question of "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"

Aka Pereyma, whose art was recently displayed at the Dayton Art Institute, showed all who visited her exhibit her answer in a painting she called "The Egg Was First."

Pereyma is Ukrainian and an egg frequently appears in her work. She was often asked if the chicken or the egg came first. There was no question in her mind that it was the egg. She said:

                                     Automatically, people will ask me, “What do you

                                     mean, where did the egg come from? And I say,

                                     “The egg came from God.” And that ends that.

The egg relates directly to Pereyma's early experiences learning to decorate pysanky, the Ukrainian Easter eggs. She began at at six, an age when children begin to write. She noted, "It is not just a painted egg, it is a written egg. And I think that is because of all the symbols that you can read into what they mean."