Tabula Vivum is a table crafted with hand-cut lime stone and a fresco. The piece, like Lavdansky’s other numerous projects, was influenced by ecclesiastical culture.
With its shape, the table resembles the fragment of an old ruined church pillar, with a barely distinguishable symbolic motif remaining on its surface.
The front of the table is decorated with the fresco. To transfer the fresco painting onto a smaller interior piece, the stone surface was notched to give it the necessary roughness for adhesion to a thin layer of lime. The addition of sand-lime glue to the lime mortar ensured adhesion and securing of the material on the small surface without special nails, while giving an unusual gloss to the fresco.
The contour of the table top is emphasised by the «opush», which is a line of red pigment that frames the outer edge of an icon in orthodox iconographic tradition.
