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Now joining us in the studio is digital illustrator Domen Lombergar. A very warm welcome. --Hello to you too.

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We've invited you mostly because you've appeared in an anthology of 135 best graphic designers, illustrators,

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and digital illustrators in the world. Here we can also see your work which appeared in the publication

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I'm interested in where this contemporary modern art is situated? --I for once classify my own art as a genre of

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fantastic realism, perhaps even surrealism. It's a run away from reality towards dreams, some sort of irrationality,

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and sort of a visual provocation. --What kind of provocation? What do you wish to provoke with this illustration?

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This illustration for example is a study of composition curves, of colors, objects. The provocation here is the fact that

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shadows are falling on object in a completely opposite way as they are supposed to. For this reason the 3D form of the object

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gets visually deformed and the spectator is forced to accomodate to the image in order to completely understand it.

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Is this maybe the art of the third, perhaps fourth century? --I strongly hope that it is an art of the fourth, or third century,

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but the current problem is that digital art is still extremely stigmatised. Mostly because we do not have the possibility to distinguish

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what the original is. In the moment of creation of the artwork it's just a file and it's extremely difficult to set a price for that.

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Outside of a payment for a service. --Your illustrations can be seen where? Is this applied art? Can we see the work in books,

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pictorials? --Yes, currently my work can be seen on CD covers, I strongly hope that this will continue with some serious book covers, I am

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currently in the transition for the commercial illustration scene. --How exactly does one of your work originate? Do you combine

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photography and then graphically redesign it or it the workflow different? What medium are you creating in?

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I create in a multitude of media which are in the end combined into a media conglomerate which is my finished artwork.

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I use everything from 3D modelling, to photography, to digital painting with a tablet and because art is being softwerised

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I am trying to keep an open mind to media as much as possible. --Which comes first, idea or image? Does an idea emerge from

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the image? --The idea, absolutely. --So you know what you want from the very beginning? --I have to, yes. This is definetely a

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must, because art emerges from the idea. Everything else is just a facsimile of the idea. --How is this type of art valued in the

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world and how is it valued here? Due to the fact that you're the only slovenian in this anthology? --For now in Slovenia it is far

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worse than abroad. The same can be said for photography and I hope things will change for the better, we are working on

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making it better. --So that it will be. We wish you a lot of creative unrest and thank you for visiting us in the studio. --Thank you for the invitation