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ILAN LEAS |  bio

My work is a journey through mark making, where each stroke is a spontaneous, intuitive expression of a subconscious flow. With aphantasia, a disposition where the mind lacks the ability to visualize images, my creative process is rooted in the present. I don't see images in my mind's eye as I work, there is no visual reference or internal picture to guide me. This absence of mental imagery frees me from premeditated concepts, allowing my art to emerge organically and uniquely. Without planning, I let each mark guide me, channeling primitive lines that resonate with the physical properties of my tools.

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The result is a kinetic process, where the energy of each line charges up and determines the next. My marks become a conversation between the subconscious and the physical, guided by the subtle interplay between chaos and harmony, much like nature. Since moving to the desert from NYC, my more precise and sharp graffiti-like strokes have softened to create and organic assemblage of desert shapes, forms and lines, marked in a new desert palette.

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