Ukrainian artist Oleksandr Klymenko shows his artwork and part of an ammunition box at a studio in Kyiv, Ukraine March 26, 2021. Instead of using regular wooden panels, artists Sofia Atlantova and Oleksandr Klymenko paint icons on the covers and bottoms of ammunition boxes brought from the eastern Donbass region, the epicentre of Ukraine's conflict with Russian-backed separatists. Picture taken March 26, 2021. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
KYIV (Reuters) - Visiting a military base in 2014, Ukrainian artist and icon painter Oleksandr Klymenko was struck by how much the bottom and cover of a wooden ammunition box could resemble a Christian icon panel.
He borrowed one of the boxes from the base and painted a Byzantine icon featuring the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child on its cover. Klymenko said the icon looked at least 800 years old.
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