Ilya Zomb
In a Few Minutes, Everything Will be Changed
$50,000
Oil on Canvas
41 x 46 inches framed
Set at the edge of a cliff, this painting captures a world suspended between calm and catastrophe. Two figures—one balanced in a dancer’s pose with quails perched lightly on her arms, the other seated in quiet reflection upon a horse—exist in a moment of impossible stillness. Below them, storks and spoonbills stand at the precipice while, in the distance, a volcano erupts. Yet the eruption feels more like a whisper than a warning, as though the world itself is holding its breath.
The title, In a Few Minutes Everything Will Be Changed, suggests the fragile hinge between serenity and transformation. The painting explores that fleeting interval before disruption—the beauty of balance in the face of inevitable change. Every element, from the poised human forms to the resting birds, participates in a choreography of tension and stillness.
Within the context of The Art of Watching Birds, this work becomes a meditation on perception. Watching birds demands patience and attentiveness; here, the act of watching extends to life itself. The viewer becomes a witness to equilibrium just before it shifts—a reminder that art, like nature, is always poised on the edge of metamorphosis.






