About

findigart started off as a brand to represent my own artworks of digital art, but later naturally evolved to form spiritual art with true purpose and unique venues I chose to name Conceptual Abstract Art, Infographic Abstract Art and Pop Abstract Art. Anyhow, I’m still not really sure where this is all leading…

Not your regular CV…

Consensus prohibited

I tend not to emphasize the importance of formal CV’s, as I know how little they may indicate as to the quality of the person concerned or to the true story of his life.

My name is Ilan Lichtnayer (yeah, of Polish heritage…). I was born in Israel in 1976. Until a few months ago I used to work in the infographics department of a large Israeli newspaper. This influenced me greatly, at first without my conscious knowledge, and gave birth to an artistic venue called Infographic Art.

And so, along the years I did a little bit of this and tried some of that and I have been here and traveled there, and I tasted and wanted and hoped and grew and ripened and slowly introverted into the point of no-return in terms of my relation with the existential suffering.

Why art?

The shortage of artistic creation consciously throbbed within me from the young age and frustrated me deeply on more than one occasion, but art frightened me for it intensely illuminated the fear from not being: not being creative, not being wise, not being talented, not being sensitive, not being appreciated in the eyes of all those people who embodied what I conceived and defined for all my life to be mental virtues. My perception of art as something exalted and distant discouraged me from being an artist, and the fear to fail in my attempts blinded me and caused me to astray from my true self.

Why life?

In January 2001 I took my first Vipassana course and things started to shape into a different perspective. In the second course my spiritual intellect awakened and my instinctual and emotional contents began to form, refine and take upon more creative and productive characteristics. Intuition and inspiration started to sprout as buds and wisdom began to shine, as self-image began to decline.

Along the years and experience of life, along the suffering and conflicts, along the observation, the insights and the mental purification fear lessened and received its appropriate proportions. Thus began to shine within me the recognition that after all, art can be simple as well, not threatening and certainly not hostile as I used to feel about it before.

The birth of findigart

It was during one of those Vipassana courses I sat on September 2007, when I felt vaguely that this was my corporeal goal in life – to become an artist. Soon after I realized, that it is indeed my goal in life and that I need not to become an artist for I already am one. The artist was dormant within me for all my life, chained and shackled by fear. What I needed to do was to set him free and indeed I have been doing so ever since. I operate under the brand name findigart because I don’t want to be personally exposed – call it the foresight of Ego yet to awaken and the vague wisdom, that this will be good for me in the future to be able to not be recognized by my own name.

Art is me at all those moments when I truly have something to say and I am an artist at all those moments when I allow myself to be true.