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So for the assignment, I have learned how to create a Ukranian Easter Egg. Interesting in and of itself. You use melted beeswax and a calligraphy pen to cover up what you don't want to be dyed. Then you dip it in a dye and let that layer dry. You use the beeswax again to cover up the areas of the first dye you want to keep. Kind of working in the negative space.


However, while melting the wax over and over again, it got me thinking. Using the beeswax is a lot like what we do to protect ourselves in love and friendship. We cover things up that we want to keep private. When we fall in love, we are covered in that color. It's indelible. We choose which parts of that previous love we want to keep and which we dye over. No matter how many times it happens, there are still parts that are the original white, and parts that are the various previous colors. We choose what we keep and what we cover up.