Modern Day Fabergé

This ongoing series references the glory and tragic fate of deceased pop culture icons. Historically the Imperial Eggs were given on Easter from the Russian Imperial Family from 1885-1916. Emperor Alexander III and his son, Nicholas II gifted these masterpieces to their wives and mothers. Each year the eggs became more and more elaborate until the Romanov Family’s ultimate demise. My version for the Fabergé eggs is to invoke a personal nostalgia for the viewer by combining patterns and images that have relevance to the subject matter as well as a sense of tragedy. I hope to give the subject matter a semblance of idolatry through iconography.