This painting is still in progress at the artist's studio.

Ilya Zomb’s pseudo realism is a carefully constructed form of Magical Realism where meticulous, Renaissance-like technique is used to depict impossible, dream-like scenarios. The core concept is creating a "parallel universe"—a space of suspended reality where the constraints of the real world fall away, and beauty becomes the highest law.

In Farewell to Birds in Central Park, Zomb takes the familiar, everyday backdrop of New York's Central Park and populates it with chimerical figures: ballerinas atop elephants, a dancing harlequin, and migratory storks. The composition is highly theatrical, suggesting a grand, choreographed performance, perhaps a metaphor for the cyclical nature of seasons and life's fleeting moments. The "farewell" adds a poignant, meditative tone to the otherwise celebratory dynamism. The artist uses his polished, luminous style to make the impossible believable, manipulating proportion and allegory to draw the viewer into this elusive intersection of reality and pure fantasy, where his personal vision reigns.