We can percept the pictures of islands in three levels of regarding, which refer to the three levels of our conscience.

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First level: archetypes (ad scheme no.1). We can see the ground plan of an island surrounded by a sea. His banks are created by an outer garden divided into four cardinal points - into a nothern, eastern, southern and western part. On the island there is a fortress (Citadela) with eight (two times four) defensive towers. Water surface (a water moat with clean drinking water) then defends the inner double garden, whose fortification is gentle, subtile. In the middle of the second garden is located - divided by light - proper residence (an impregnable tower) of the master of the Island. The Citadela doesn´t have any gate. The entrance is only possible from above and if we know the key. In this level of regarding we can percept the pictures as jantras for concentration and meditation. After all we can percept anything this way - the whole world and universe (everything that is beautiful) - without having to realize the hidden structure (order) everytime.

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Second level: facts (ad scheme no.2). So that it is possible to pain the picture necessarily represents something - some concrete, variable content. The ground plan of the island itself, Four seasons, Day and Night, feelings, variations of transcendental connections, etc. So far for the painting itself. The wire-netting at the same time hides (covers) but also enables a look inside. Among others is here a symbol of the veil (Majou - the big delusion) of the world. Aurum nostrum non est aurum vulgi. Regarded as this the islands are common conventional pictures. For purpose - so that there is a possibility to read them. Conventional feature fully complies with the artistical intention.

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Third level: ideas (ad scheme no.3). Unvariable plan of the Islands reflects the ever hidden plan of the world and universe. The content is coded numerically in colorful relationship as well as the used textures of painting. The scheme itself contains the code of numbers 5 + 8 + 9 = 22 and 15, simultaneously 22 + 15 = 37 = aritmosofically = 10, where 0 is transcendental AJIN and 1 is imanent EJN SOF (see the works of  Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi - e.g. Universe in Kabbala, 1994). The number of the lines in the drawing of the scheme equals 120 = aritmosofically = 3. Scheme is a model, because the essence itself can´t be figure.

Ilja Sainer / Without Title, 4. 8. 1997

You can find the whole text to the exhibition Islands/Ostrovy in NTM, Prague 1997 here in Czech.