Infant

The detail taken here is one usually pushed to the background of an icon. The ornamental bands are built separately and cast together with the figure.

One image — Mother and Child — in dozens of states: from the Vladimir icon to a dark face in rays of gold leaf and an almost abstract mark on blue. The series rests on the face: however little of the icon is left, it still looks at you.

Child in arms, ochre background, ornamental bands.