Patterns

The iconographic essence of such images as mothers and children, fathers and partners, wedding and burial rituals always remains the same. These unchanging images disguise personal traumas that shatter the conventionality of the archetypical. Behind semi-transparent layers of photos there is a visual code of generational practices and mythology that refer to the primordial familial archetype of the Father God, Son, and the Mother of God. A deliberate desire to “decorate” and sacralize the fragile reality manifests in the naive ornamental frameworks of village handmade icon cases, evidently based on the Ark of the Covenant with its table of commandments.