WHITE GLOVES AND THE BOOK OF SILENCE
That’s what lay at the end of the exhibit by Olena Turianska in the Lviv Art Gallery just off to the right of the Opera House. A pair of white gloves on either side of a book marked with the Ukrainians word “tysha” – silence. The exhibit was one of paper cutouts by the local artist. They were painstakingly symmetrical and detailed cutouts that echoed the central theme of infinity, of the perfectly repeated and expanding pattern of creation, or what Nicholas in his mind at that moment wanted to call infinetudes. They were various conceptualizations of what the artist saw as the human need to mimic the infinite, to mimic perfection, that perfection that comes from the divine.
Nicholas would have missed that part of the exhibit if the baby-faced armed gu
