While many Ukrainian-Canadians create pysanky every Easter, for artist Joan Brander the brightly coloured and intricately drawn eggs have come to represent a hope for peace in Ukraine at a time when the country and its culture are under attack.
The technique of creating pysanky traces back thousands of years, and when Ukrainians began coming to Canada, “we continued it as part of our cultural identity,” said Brander.
She is helping to keep the tradition alive through her business Baba’s Beeswax, an e-commerce site selling everything you need to make traditional pysanky.
The decorated eggs are now associated with Easter, but before Christianity they were simply a celebration of spring. According to Brander, Ukrainians historically
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