#JUREWICZ THEODORE ICONOGRAPHER HOW TO#

He follows a hierarchal pattern established in the Middle Ages. The process is very difficult at the beginning, but then it gets increasingly easy and more rewarding.'

#JUREWICZ THEODORE ICONOGRAPHER HOW TO#

'I've learned how to avoid accidents on scaffolding,' he said, 'to put things up so they don't fall off. Jurewicz used a scissor lift to reach the high points. 'That got everyone's attention,' Trbuhovich said, gazing up at the commanding figure. It was the first image to appear and made believers even out of those in the congregation of 350 to 400 people who had been reluctant toward change.ĭetails: From top to bottom, every space is seen covered in vivid colors thanks to the reverend's careful paintbrush which depicts hundreds of figures in the timeless Byzantine style Traditionally, it would go in the dome if a church has one. 'Some people said this is the way our church should look.'Ī 16-by-16-foot icon of the face of Christ occupies the center of St. 'On other occasions to use icons, we would show pictures of traditional churches covered in icons,' he said as walked through the nave, which he said represents the cosmos transformed.

'We use them to communicate with the person in the icon.

'We don't worship icons, we honor them, we venerate them,' Trbuhovich explained. One of Jurewicz's mentors, a monk named Father Cyprian Pyzhov, had done some work in the Lackawanna church in the 1960s. Rastko Trbuhovich, who has been there 28 years, said church leaders had casually talked about such a project for years before finally moving forward to raise funds for the $160,000 undertaking. we use them to communicate with the person in the icon'

Jurewicz theodore iconographer