Born in 1948, Serbian – Australian – American artist, Dragan Ilić lives and works in New York and Belgrade. In 2009, he founded the experimental performance space ITS-Z1, a platform for the intersection of art and science, hosting acclaimed artists such as Stelarc. Ilić's work has been featured on tv and in galleries, including:  Documenta, PS 1 MoMa, the Center for Cultural Decontamination in Belgrade, Queens Museum of Art, and, in April 2010, at the Museum of Science in Boston, as a part of National Robotics Week, as well as at Ars Electronica, Linz, in 2016 and 2017. 

In the year 2019, he exhibited his works at the International Triennial of Expanded Media, Multimedia Art, and New Media Art, in Belgrade, Serbia and in the same year he had a major solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade (MCA/MSU). He is represented by GV Art London.

This artwork is a mixed-media artwork utilising graphite pencils and acrylic paints, a combination of draughtsmanship and painting techniques, realised by means of patterns drawn with proprietary DI Drawing Devices and layered painterly brushwork. The forms realised in two different artistic mediums are presented as superimposed on top of each other, thus creating multi-dimensional layering, and also the forms themselves seem to be juxtaposed so as to simultaneously contrast and blend the forms in their respective multiple dimensions of black and white drawing patterns and painted coloured shapes and forms. The artwork represents a symbolic merger of the artist’s dominant styles from different stylistic and experimental periods. The dominant coloured centre-structured form has an almost sculptural or volumetric semblance and appeal, whereas the complex entangled and criss-crossing parallel lines and forms represent and symbolise the myriad symmetries of a sacred geometric, mathematical universe.