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Icons from Shells

By Jonathan Pageau on April 4, 2013

Here is a surprising video from a Georgian news website of an Archpriest who uses seashells to create decorative images but also icons.  His images are quite “folk” in appearance and composition and the iconography is obviously rather simple as the shells prevent too much detail.   This priest seems quite comfortable as he is shown […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography, News | Tagged folk, georgia, Icon, iconography, shells June 5, 2017
 

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