The faces are stoic, the gazes are steady, but it is more than that. Drazen Dupor points to the shadows, cast toward the outside, creating a glow.
"The light comes from inside the center — not outside," he explains. "It is holy."
The 40-year-old native of Croatia, born of Serbian parents, has made a living all of his adult life by painting Byzantine religious icons. His training, in Greece, was old school — much like iconography was done 2,000 years ago.