This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Comfort Food Edition, CSS Art.
Inspiration
My other two entries were about a moment and a ritual. This one is about the opposite: the dish you fall back on when you have no skill, no energy and no plan. Boiled eggs are what you make when you cannot cook. Six minutes, one pan,and the comfort is precisely that it is not possible to get it wrong.
Two choices made it worth drawing rather than just worth eating.
A glass bowl, so you can see the boil. In a steel pan the interesting half of this is hidden. Glass also turned out to be the exact opposite problem to the terracotta in my chai piece — unglazed clay is matte and forgives a sloppy gradient, glass shows you every single one.
An induction hob, for the light. I finished the fridge piece saying the one piece of advice I'd give is pick a scene with a light source in it. So I did it again on purpose. The element ring is the only warm thing in an otherwise cold grey kitchen, an
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