“Is it I the one who dreams to be a butterfly, or is the butterfly who dreams to be me？”
                                      ——Chuang Tse

    In the past ten years, my main preoccupation was the problem of illusion. The geometric ornament, which even before this period, appeared as decoration on my ceramic work, lead to the idea of enriching the two dimensional character of these shapes, by introduction the third dimension. The process began with the painting of plates and making their basically simple and solid shapes disappear: by painting I change the elementary form . I expect these plates give the impression of being filled with fabric. I am wonted to make it impossible to trace the adventures of the ribbons, and to create a geometric jam, when they wrap the cylinder, spend some time in two-dimensional space, penetrate the prism and come back, trying to bite their own tail.
    In examining our perception I pose absurd and unsolvable riddles: is what we see reality, or just illusion? While working, I feel like traveling optically into the depth, like moving through space and time, exploring the layers of perception, gazing into infinity, and I have proven to myself that reality is only one of many formal systems.
    Is it possible to exit from such a structure? The essence of the presentation is the given possibility of infinity. I believe the way out or solution to the riddle is not to interpret anything. I draw spirals on many of these works, among other reasons, also as warning that every interpretation is yet another round towards the center, or moving away from it .
    After the plates, I continued to experiment with optical illusion on more plastic shapes, ceramic sculptures. Suddenly the possibilities expanded. I introduced some new and steadier geometric shapes.