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Windows have taken a massive role almost since the dawn of man. A porthole from one world to another - from the protected inner realm, watching the world outside take its course - seeing without being seen, or from the outside peeping in at a glimpse of the private realm of others. Modern windows can assume a double role - under certain conditions they provide a look inside and at others they merely reflect the outside world back at it. In this project Ilan is tackling the subject of windows, and displays them in the unique way he sees the world, an almost abstract view of shapes and forms, lines, geometry and symmetry.

Modern architecture constitutes the perfect playground for a lover of symmetry and geometric forms. Ilan explores different angles and lighting conditions as paint on his canvas and produces mind bending abstract "paintings" that represent his mind's inner workings more then the structure that was photographed.

The Earth is a complex place, from the macro to the micro, it is comprised of an infinite amount of details. In Essence of Earth, Ilan attempts to make some order - extract the underlying shapes, forms and textures and display a distilled version to the viewer.

Being a man of color, Ilan loves experiencing the world, and documenting it, in all of it's colorful glory. However, there are times when the color is a mask, and stripping it away reveals a bare world of textures, shapes and forms which come together to take on a whole new meaning.

"I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects." "Abstract art is not the creation of another reality, but the true vision of reality" -- Piet Mondrian The world is a complicated and sometime overwhelming place. The excess of details baffles and confuses, and we stand bewildered at all of the noise encompassing reality, instead of focusing on its essence. “Equations” is my attempt at eliminating the minor distractions out of the visual-environmental wealth and exposing the underlying building blocks of reality – The shapes, forms and colors surrounding us. This is my way of showing that all objects are created from the same basic elements. Whether its water, trees and mountains, or buildings and plowed fields, they all maintain an undeniable underlying connection, which are clearly revealed once the noise surrounding them is pealed off.