Holy Trinity Ukrainian Churchby `Laurazee

Traditional Art / Paintings / Landscapes & Scenery

Acrylic on canvas, 10" x 10"

This was going to be part of my Main Street series. The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral is located a block west of Main on 10th Avenue.

For the past 15 years on the first Friday of every month, they hold their famous "Perogy Night" where they offer a selection of Ukrainian foods. The food is delicious - each perogy is hand made! - and complete hearty dinners are "cheap like borsch" as my Baba would say. It's so popular that there are often line-ups to get in for what is widely considered the best Ukrainian dinner in town.

I was looking up Orthodoxy because I honestly didn't know what it meant. I liked this explanation for its simple terminology: "Orthodox Christian is a church group. In many ways, they are like Catholics with a few exceptions. Some are or are not in communion with Rome. They follow Slavic or Greek as their base, not Latin. They have a different spirituality (Catholic is more cerebral, Orthodox is more emotional). They use 2 dimensional images in worship (icons) over 3 dimensional (statues). Of all Christian groups, they have the richest vestments, liturgies, and the most decorated churches."

That struck me as interesting, especially the cerebral vs. emotional point.

Anyway, this is painted with a few Byzantine touches - notably shiny gold foil and my usual somewhat El Greco-influenced style. I intended to make it look a little like praying hands or perhaps vestments.

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~LeonieZurakowsky Dec 9, 2011 Digital Artist

We must have grown up in sorta parallel lives! Most of my grandparents were from Ukraine as well! They were Mennonites kicked out out of Europe though for being such heretics!