The Vegreville Egg is a giant sculpture of a pysanka, an Ukrainian style Easter egg. It is the largest pysanka in the world. The work is built of an intricate set of anodized aluminum two-dimensional tiles congruent equilateral triangles and star-shaped hexagons fashioned over an aluminum framework. The egg is 31 ft (9 m) long and three and a half stories high, weighing in at 2.5 t (5,512 lb). Located in Vegreville, a town in Alberta, Canada, the sculpture was designed by Paul Maxum Sembaliuk (1929 - present), a Canadian artist of Ukrainian decent who was born and raised in the Willingdon / Vegreville area. The egg (pysanka) was commissioned by the town of Vegreville as a tribute to Ukrainian culture in Canada, specifically early Ukrainian settlements east of Edmonton. #alberta #Easter_Egg #Pysanka #Vegreville
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