DALLAS – Vladimir Grygorenko gazed at his decade-long work: extraordinary murals and canvases of religious icons that took an iron will to finish at St. Seraphim Orthodox Cathedral.
Then, the 56-year-old artist turned to the crisis in his homeland of Ukraine and the resolve of its people. The unprovoked war there against Russian forces has taken thousands of lives – and brought in a stream of donations that include bulletproof vests and helmets.
“They will be resisting until the last person is standing alive,” Grygorenko said, inside the incense-scented cathedral. “This is not emotionalism. It is fact.”
