and when i look up from the egg, you know, i feel gratitude that i'm not there any more. >> gil batle spent most of his adult life in and out of california jails and prisons for fraud and forgery. yet after nearly a decade of freedom, batle finds himself drawn back to the scenes that once defined his world. >> a lot of the eggs i have the chain gang. i used to think those aren't just 20 guys. those are 20 guys with 20 different stories. >> you give each individual a different face? >> it's impossible to do the same face. you can't make the same face. >> different faces but no expression? >> different faces but no expressions, right. >> an egg and an egg shell is expressionless until the artist arrives. >> wow, right. life, yeah. i put life on that thing. egg. >> first i come up with a scene for each egg. once i figure out what the three-point is i have to then figure out how i'm going to place it on the egg. in this case, i wanted to do four panels. so i divide the egg in half. then i try to find the equator. obsession with the shape of eggs. and their promise of a fresh beginning. bu

is a symbol of a fresh start, then it's perfect metaphor for the life of convict turned artist, gil batle. >> my art was my ticket to freedom. >> most guys didn't have that. >> no. batle has emerged to create exquisite works of sculpture carved into the shells of ostrich eggs. history and a story's hatched from these eggs later on "sunday morning." >> osgood: dame maggie smith is one of our most venerated performers she's playing two very different characters. mo rock could talking to her. >> dane maggie smith obtained new level of fame as the dowager count he is of "downton abbey." >> as seen from the outside. i'm not a beggar. >> eccentric she plays couldn't be more opposite. >> i wonder if the dowager count he is and miss shepard were happen. >> the dowager would take out very large hat pin. don't keep this dame waiting. >> osgood: as is our tradition and year's end this morning we'll be saying hail and farewell to those who left us in 2015. >> there are things i like most, love, love and love. >> osgood: every year we take time to remember the many remarkable people who left us in the