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Orthodox Christian Iconographer/Oil Painter

Eastern Washington/Montana

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Joined October 2022

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I’m looking to take on another wall painting iconography project for after I complete the work at Holy Trinity. I’ve had a few inquiries but no follow up & I’m trying to solidify a project for late 2024. If you/someone you know are in need of an iconographer, please contact me.☦️

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I’m 15 followers away from 7k! Help me cross the finish line friends.🙂☦️

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St George is finished & just in time. I’m headed home for the season tomorrow & while I am stoked to see my beautiful wife, I’m also a tad bummed as I really enjoyed my time alone painting with God. I will return here in April of 24’ to continue doing the other frescos. ☦️

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My sweet little daughter “Charlie”(Charlotte), received an official diagnosis of autism today. We suspected it, as I have a son w/autism as well, but it’s still devastating to hear. Luckily she is extremely functional and m ok stay has communication/emotional regulation issues.

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The Sinai Pantocrator 🧵 1/One of my favorite icons to paint is that of the beloved Sinai Christ Pantocrator. I’d like to share with you some information about the icon and its fascinating origins.

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@QuetzalPhoenix @laenorca_stille That’s his twin Van Gas

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What icon should I paint next?

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“Christ is the only exit from this world; all other exits-sexual rapture, political utopia, economic independence-are but blind alleys in which rot the corpses of the many who have tried them.” -Fr. Seraphim Rose This is a Mandilion icon commission I completed in early 2024

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“Just as the Divine Liturgy cannot be properly celebrated without prayer, it is also impossible without iconography.” -St Dumitru Stăniloae I’m back in Montana working on the wall paintings here for the next few weeks. Here are two icons I finished a few weeks ago.

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Please pray for my long time friend and spiritual father/confessor Abbot Tryphon. He is in hospital and having a fairly substantial surgery today.

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I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. John 10:14-15 Recently completed icon of The Good Shepherd.

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@memoryiswisdom NAFO memes are quite literally the dumbest, low effort, sub-boomer, bottom text, Reddit urinal cake tier memes to have ever existed so when I saw these face reveals yesterday there was no shock to be imagined.

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@tulpapilled Razor sharp comedic timing

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This is the only tomb that I want to see President Trump praying at.

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Former President Trump at tomb of Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson in Queens, NY.

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Here is a quick shot of St George as just an underpainting before I started overlaying the color.

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My long time spiritual father/confessor Abbot Tryphon is having surgery in a few days & it’s fairly major. Please pray for him to have a successful surgery & quick recovery. We/I need him on earth for a while longer! This is an icon of St Nektarios I painted for him last year.

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“The Shroud Not Made By Hands” 8x10.5” The Shroud of Turin is extraordinarily important to me as an iconographer. So much so that I have a near life sized print of it hanging in my icon painting studio. I got the idea to paint a “Not Made by Hands” icon of the Shroud about a

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Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me. -Saint Patrick ☦️🇮🇪 *recently completed commission

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Commission I recently completed of St Gabriel of Georgia. This icon is based on the well known story of when Fr Gabriel lit large portraits of Lenin(and other communist leaders), on fire during a large public gathering. I will link the incredible story in the comments below.

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I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.-Revelation 1:8 Shot I took up on the scaffolding earlier.

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Here is a timelapse of me painting a Christ Pantocrator. If you or your parish are interested in purchasing this wall painting, or if you’re interested in having something designed specifically for your parish/home chapel, please DM me or email shayne @shayneswenson .com 🤝🏻☦️

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@WriterJohnBuck @Gravantus I think about that moment a lot. It’s insane to me when I ask people about this and they say 🤷🏻‍♂️

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@DisprinXtra “So no one told you life was gonna be this waayy 💥💥💥💥”

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@real_lord_miles Follow your dreams, Miles.

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@TrashRadio_ Fantastic thread and powerfully blackpilling in a cathartic way.❤️

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“Christ is the only exit from this world; all other exits-sexual rapture, political utopia, economic independence-are but blind alleys in which rot the corpses of the many who have tried them.” -Fr. Seraphim Rose *commission from a few weeks ago

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Please continue to pray for the restoration of health to my spiritual father, confessor, and long time friend, Abbot Tryphon. He’s still in hospital and still in need of prayer. Thank you ☦️

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@Black_Pilled How convenient

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Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

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@disclosetv This is beyond parody at this point. 🤡 🇺🇸

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Dinner time with Abbot Tryphon, Metropolitan Jonah, Fr Hans Jacobse, Fr Dcn Ananias Sorem🙂☦️

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In a few weeks I’ll be back on site painting Holy Trinity. 👀☦️

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@TibetanBasket On point 100%. I grew up in a “small city” in Montana and relocated to a town of <1800 as a freshman in high school. It was a logging town as opposed to an Ag town but I experienced similar woes regarding social integration. Most the girls moved post HS and I ended up joining the

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Beginning St George….sealing the plaster as it’s a tad too absorbent.

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One of my best friends of over 20 years died today. Please pray for the repose of the soul of Michael.

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I finished this “mission sized” Pantokrator today. I left the outer border blank so whomever buys it can have the exact verse/inscription they want. I’m currently editing a short timelapse video of the painting process so watch for that in the next 24hrs. For sale DM for $

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I painted this St John the Baptist a couple of years ago on an old panel I had laying in a pile of scrap destined for the trash. If God can pull me from the trash bound scrap heap of addiction and make me into something new, He can absolutely do the same for you. #orthodoxy ☦️

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“Excuse me, it’s nowhere close to being Easter.”

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In June I paid a surprise visit to my spiritual father, Abbot Tryphon, on Father’s Day. I brought with me this icon of St Nektarios that I painted as a gift for the church. Fr Tryphon is one of a kind, and he has been my biggest encouragement/supporter of my iconography vocation.

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@Copinghard69 @N3weis @VERONASFILMS Hits a bit different coming from “copinghard69”

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Okaaayyy let’s go.

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7 years ago I went through a hellish falling out w/a bad parish priest. What went on was unjust & beyond scandalous, & it so hurt my wife, that she walked away from the Church. Today, after 3 years away, she came to liturgy with us and it was her idea. Prayer works ya’ll.☦️❤️

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Progress on the choir loft so far…

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@OrwellNGoode This used to drive me insane but then I bought a truck and just became the lifted 4x4 guy.

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My current POV🙂☦️

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I never post outrage bait and for some reason I did during Holy Week! And while I’m up here in God’s presence painting a beautiful church! I’m a sinner and I need to focus solely on my own sins. Please forgive me everyone for my poor example and especially @PageauJonathan

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@KeithWoodsYT *actual photo of guy who runs account

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I am the Alpha and the Omega, theBeginning and the End, the First and the Last. —Revelation 22:13 *This is available still. DM for $ info

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Pray for peace. 🕊️☦️ Glory to God for all things.

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I painted a portrait of Fr Seraphim Rose a few years back and here I am adding the final touches. The painting is still available for sale. DM if interested

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1/ St Andrei Rublev: a🧵 St Andrei Rublev(1360-1430)was a 15th-century Russian monastic icon painter who was renowned for his unique style and the profound spiritual depth in his iconography both during his life and after his repose.

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Icons in churches and houses are necessary because they remind us of the immortality of the saints; that they live unto Him, and that in God they see, hear, and help us. -St. John of Kronstadt *work from late 23’. For wall painting/fresco projects, send a DM or email.

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Royal Doors icons for Our Lady of Kazan Russian Orthodox Church(MP) iconostasis are almost complete. It’s such a nice change of pace being able to work in this style, as I have a deep appreciation and affinity for traditional western/Catholic art and iconography. More to come…☦️

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How many of you still struggle with accepting that God exists even though you are Orthodox/Catholic? My natural disposition is “pessimist cynic” and I often tend towards unbelief/skepticism. Some find it shocking I admit to still struggling with this after all these years but 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Can you guess the saint I’m currently painting by this quote?

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@JFGariepy This is a complex economic theory most will struggle to understand.

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1/🧵about an icon I recently painted of one of my favorite saints, St Silouan the athonite. I included the famous words, “Keep thy mind in hell and despair not,” which is now a well known saying that was given to St. Silouan by God, during a night of fierce spiritual warfare.

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@AFpost Jarvis, Google “how to immigrate to Afghanistan”

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“Pornography is the Devil’s iconography.” ~Fr. Seraphim Rose *icon completed in 2018(sold). DM for commission inquiries

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“…Therefore, paint on wood and present for contemplation Him who desired to become visible.” -St John Damascene

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I was blessed to be commissioned to paint this large icon by my friend Rebecca @Dissident_Mama Though I’m not myself of southern descent, I nevertheless appreciate and support those who labor in the south for the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Orthodox Church.

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“Humility and love, there you have it. This is everything.”-St Paisios the Athonite Blessed Feast of St Paisios! *icon I completely last year

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Your parish priest is not an abbot and you are not a monk. You don’t owe them “obedience” in the way many people on here seem to believe. A spiritually healthy parish priest will tell you the exact same thing. Flee from any priest who excessively lords over your personal life.

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@CensoredMen *actual photo of alleged suspect

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The church I’m currently working on was consecrated by him 👇🏻

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“‘The world’ is the general name for all the passions. When we wish to call the passions by a common name, we call them the world. But when we wish to distinguish them by their special names, we call them passions. The passions are the following: love of riches, desire for

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Therapeutic libertarianism – the belief that life is a rat-race toward personal enlightenment, achieved through ever-more byzantine regimes of narcissistic self-care – is absolutely everywhere in American culture. And it's bipartisan, spanning Jordan Peterson to Robin DiAngelo 2/

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I have to admit that I bought this book 10+ years ago and I never read it. I have an enormous Orthodox library so that’s not uncommon tbh. I finally started reading it yesterday and 🤯. It has refocused me in a very powerful way. Read this book if you’ve not done so.

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@RoyalEndeavour *massively contributes to the popular deconstruction of the foundational cultural and religious ethos of home country *complains when foundational cultural and religious ethos of home country becomes unrecognizable

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Pray for my pal here so that he can be finally released home where he belongs.☦️

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I'm asking for your prayers through the weekend so that old Grandpa Tryphon can leave the care center and return to the monastery for continued recovery. #prayer #recovery #miracle

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Over the years I have been stiffed out of thousands of $ in unpaid invoices for iconography, licensing, design+illustration work, etc., by several big name Orthodox clergy/individuals/ministries/dioceses that if I name them(I won’t), it would shock you. I’ve also been on the

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This doesn’t even mention all the complaints, grumblings, rumors, criticisms, strong personalities, and infighting. All of which are probably your fault because you didn’t handle things properly.

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I painted this icon of Christ a few years ago when I was studying contemporary Romanesque iconography. I’ve since done some additional sketches and color studies but it’s still a style that I don’t often do.

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I was blessed to receive a commission to paint several of these portraits of Elder Ephraim for some of his monasteries in the USA. I was never given the opportunity to meet the elder in this life, though I pray to him nearly every day. God is wonderful in His saints-Psalm67:36

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“Christian Zionism” is the default religion of the majority of American “spiritual but not religious” evangelicals. They have no authentic tradition, outside of vague allusions to post-WWII American civic mythology, so they take on tertiary attributes of modern Judaism.

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@GregAbbott_TX This is needed once again. THE CHURCH IS ISRAEL.

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Enjoying some mediocre coffee and one of my favorite chant recordings from @DecaniMonastery before beginning today’s work…

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St Patrick pray for us as we step into the struggle of Great and Holy Lent.☦️🇮🇪

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Happy St. Patrick's Day! 🇮🇪☘️

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I’m currently assessing the damage to this church & making plans to come and do the restoration. I’ll be doing it w/the guidance and oversight of the original iconographer/long time friend of mine though he will be offsite due to health reasons. Please pray for God’s

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“Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” Matthew 19:14 A few years ago I was taking photos of an icon I’d just finished and my then 2yo daughter just had to be involved. I was blessed with this shot.

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“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” -Revelation 1:8 Sinai Pantocrator I painted in 2022(sold)

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@dmvhatesme @LaurenWitzkeDE Negligent discharge set

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Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. -Matthew 10:34 *I’m considering painting a panel icon based around this prototype at some point in the near future.

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I’ll be honest, I would probably despise Christians if I was not one myself. Most people aren’t anti-Christ they are anti-Christian. May God forgive us for the things we say that drive people away from Him and the Orthodox Church.

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“Scaffolding selfie” from a week or two back that I sent to my wife which I will now share with you wonderful friends.❤️ This is from a fairly large depiction of Matthew 19:14 about 25 feet up on the south wall.

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@ReaganLodge @Kamii_momoru Can confirm.

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Here’s a small portion of the wall painting iconography I completed during my last visit to Holy Trinity. St John Damascene is always a joy to paint and I always ask his intercession before I begin any iconography project.

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“As health comes from bitter medicine, so too does salvation of souls come from bitter experience.”-St Paisios *recently completed commission

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I love the Roman Catholic Church. I was raised nominally Catholic and it still holds a place in my heart. 15 years ago I returned to a belief in God via the Catholic Church and I find the western art and intellectual tradition(s) that are grounded in Catholicism to be of extreme

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@CryptidPolitics @Cernovich It came from Jesus Christ about 2k years ago. Lol

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Fr Thomas Hopko is someone who I came to love many years after I converted. His podcasts and writings have been for me an inexhaustible well of Orthodoxy that is easily understood and consumable. One major difference between him and many other Orthodox teachers is his ability to

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Adding the final highlights and reinforcement of darker shadows on this Fr Seraphim Rose portrait in oil(2019). This painting is still available. DM if interested

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I genuinely appreciate the individuals and churches who opt to commission iconography from me and other icon painters from the USA. Sourcing from within your own country is an important step towards building an authentic native Orthodox culture. Support American Orthodoxy☦️🇺🇸

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1 year

I’m almost done with this Pantokrator wall painting(on loose canvas), and I’ll be posting a time-lapse video of the process from direct sketch to inscription tomorrow afternoon. This will be available to purchase and would be great for a mission or parish hall. DM if interested.

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@MatthewTheStoat @saint_saturday You are my friend and I will ride into battle with you any time. One down…100,000 accounts to go.

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“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” —Revelation 1:8 *icon completed in 21’(sold)

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If I’ve said or done something to condemn or offend you then please forgive me. It’s truly amazing how terrible we who claim to be Orthodox Christians behave and speak to everyone on this website and in our offline lives. May God brand these words of St Gabriel on our ❤️

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