Egg and the Tree (ie:shaun)

Self portrait

 

I once was an egg.

Now I am an egg.

Now I am an egg, being sat on.

Now I am an egg, all cared for and loved.

Now I am an egg, with life within it.

The egg is about to hatch.

The egg has now hatched

The egg is going to witness, a larger egg.

The larger egg has now told the hatchling that he will speak to the world through his beak.

The beak will make noise and music.

The beak will also make things that look like what hatchling sees.

The Hatchling will Design.

And maybe later…

Make an egg of his own.

 

As strange as it is, this is the way I see myself, as an egg. (but I don’t actually think I look like an egg). I see myself as something growing, something not quite hatched, but yet, curious of the world that is outside. I am not quite aware of what is actually out there, as I have been nurtured for so long that I have now only come to realise that there is much more then the insides of my shell, but the idea of outside also frightens me.

Everything I hear of the outside world seems to be something that will be hard to come to terms with, that once I am out, I will be forced to reconcile with a bright and forceful light that will blind me and overwhelm me. But the moment I hatch, I just know, that I will instinctively know what to do.

As an emerging Graphic designer, I once thought it would be about nothing more then expressing my own creativity through visual form, but as of now in completing my honours year of design, I know now that it will be much more then that. It will be to use my creative ways to contribute in the making of a better future.

But I am still yet to hatch In the ways of knowing how to, to spread my branches into the open fields and discover what has not yet been discovered. This growing process will then continue for the rest of my design life, the branches will never stop expanding, and the roots can only dig deeper into the soil of knowing. The ever changing world will continually bring new challenged to face, by either myself as the individual, or with my fellow outbranching designers.

By the time my branches actually do reach out to contribute to the world that continually needs to be pushed into a further positive  direction, I just hope it wont be too late (as I will be most likely toilet paper scraps, for the survivors of a terrible disaster).

SOOOOOOOO positive aren’t I?

Shaun “the egg” Bryndzia