- Daniel Fried, American politician and diplomat: “This combination of war and peace reminds me the American seal, which has the eagle holding an olive branch in one talon and arrows in the other one. This is wonderful stuff, it’s culture and patriotism at the same time.”
- David C. Williams, Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Democracy, Indiana University Maurer School of Law: “The series Icons to Ammo Boxes is itself an icon that suffering can be redeemed and that in the end, love wins. I have one in my office. In my work, I regularly see the harm that people do to each other. But every morning, when I see the icon, I am forcefully reminded that people can also dwell in grace and in beauty. I treasure it.”
- George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of Washington’s Ethics and Public Policy Center: “Oleksandr Klymenko’s brilliant idea was to use a different kind of wood: not a polished and treated panel, but the rough-hewn tops or bottoms of the boxes in bullets, grenades, and artillery shells were once stored.”
- Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun, Prof. at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Act. : “The icons on ammo boxes, thus, demonstrate how violence and pain can be transfigured to peace and relief, and actually contribute to this transfiguration through the work of doctors.”
Selected Public Collections
National Sanctuary “Sophia of Kyiv”, Ukraine
Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Lithuania
The Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, United States of America
Museum of Russian icons in Clinton, Massachusetts, United States of America
Saint Josaphat’s Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral, Toronto, Canada
The National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War, Ukraine
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Metropolitan Cathedral (Winnipeg,Manitoba), Canada
The University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, Great Britain
Ukrainian Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral (Winnipeg,Manitoba), Canada
Holy Assumption Cathedral, Poltava, Ukraine
Spaso-Perobrazhensky Stavropegiyny Cathedral, Kyiv, Ukraine
Fastov Church of the Ascension of the Holy Cross, Ukraine
Selected Private Collections
Pope Francis, Vatican
King Charles III of Great Britain
Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, Turkey
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine
President of Poland Andrzej Duda, Poland
President of Finland Sauli Niinisto, Finland
Ann Kristin Linde, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden (2019-2022), OSCE Chairman-in-Office (2019), Sweden
Archbishop Boris Gudziak, Metropolitan of Philadelphia, United States of America
His Beatitude Epiphanius, Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Ukraine
His Beatitude Sviatoslav, Primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Ukraine
Zbigniew Wlodzimierz Rau, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Poland
Dalia Grybauskaitė, 9th President of Lithuania, Lithuania
Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Ukraine
Oleksiy Kuleba, Head of the Kyiv Regional Military State Administration, Ukraine
Oleksandr Tkachenko, Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, Ukraine
Bishop Visvaldas Kulbokas, Apostolic Nuncio to Ukraine, Ukraine
George Weigel (born 1951) is a Catholic American author, political analyst, and social activist, United States of America
David C. Williams, John S. Hastings Professor of Law, Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Democracy, United States of America
Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun, Prof. at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Act. Director of Huffington Ecumenical Institute, United States of America