A touching photograph of a Ukrainian woman breastfeeding her baby amid the ongoing war with Russia has inspired a new icon of the Madonna and Child. The icon seats the mother before a map of the Ukrainian metro system, which subsequently forms the halo around the subject’s head.
Ukrainian mother breastfeeding during war becomes Marian icon
Maryna Solomennykova | Tubik Design Studio
J-P Mauro - published on 03/28/22
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