Halyna Mudruyj (1 results)

No Binding. Condition: New. Halyna Mudryj signed Christmas Card circa 1998. Ukraine Catholicism, Diocese of Baltimore. Fine, pristine; see images. If there is a single American icon of Ukrainian pysanky, it's Halyna Mudryj. Her pysanky (a few are also on sale at this platform) were sold in a number of street and other craft venues; she mailed me this precious ephemera card, but the pysanky we have were acquired from her right at her sidewalk booth during a Ukrainian street festival in Manhattan in the late 1990s. At that time, and probably still, Halyna defined/defines "overachieving handcrafter". She was not a user of the upcoming hi-tech ways of making pysanky. Other than (perhaps) a magnifying glass to allow her to execute her hard-to-find tiny scripted monogram on each egg Halyna did it - and presumably still does - the real way. I haven't crossed paths with her in years. Her pysanka - chicken and goose eggs - all show shades and culturally / spiritually symbolic designs throughout - and they all mean something heartfelt. Pysanky will not get better. The only mystery here is how anyone at all can do what she has done. Yet it is in fact a long, long standing tradition in and from Ukraine - which in addition is the possible source land of Proto-Indo-European, the mother tongue of all the languages spoken by more than half of the human beings on the planet. Amazing. L-smph5. Signed by Author(s).