Vegreville egg
The Vegreville egg is a giant sculpture of a pysanka, a Ukrainian-style Easter egg. The work by Paul Maxum Sembaliuk is built of an intricate set of two-dimensional anodized aluminum tiles in the shape of congruent equilateral triangles and star-shaped hexagons, fashioned over an aluminum framework. The egg is long and three and a half stories high, weighing in at . It is the second largest pysanka in the world. The biggest one was built in Kolomyia, Ukraine in 2000.
Pysanka
A pysanka (, plural: "pysanky") is a Ukrainian Easter egg, decorated with traditional Ukrainian folk designs using a wax-resist method. The word "pysanka" comes from the verb "pysaty", "to write" or "to in scribe", as the designs are not painted on, but written (inscribed) with beeswax.