Pixel art of a gospel depicted in gold, with red pages and red, blue and light gold decorations in a medieval style featuring a cross within a jewelled border. The cover is depicted flat with the pages at a 45 degree perspective, imitating the distorted perspective used in icons historically - a tradition intended to remind the viewer that the icon is viewed not only by them, but also by God in His omniscience and by the Saint looking outwards from the icon, as it was explained to me by iconographer Aiden Hart.
Inspired by a talk on religious icons by Aiden Hart at Shrewsbury Orthodox Church (where there is currently an exhibition of icons + two more talks on 31 May & 5 June), I'm working on an icon of St Matthew. Here is his gospel from that piece. #pixelart #stmatthew #orthodox