He has been exhibiting seriously in Los Angeles and New York for a decade, and has been a respected member of the painting faculty at his alma mater, Art Center College of Design, since 1979. There is a quiet, brooding mood in these evocative paintings, along with a profound sense of historical presence, that brings to mind the German romantic tradition reaching from Caspar David Friedrich to Anselm Kiefer. In the work of each, a timelessness is achieved that allows reflection upon the fundamental aspects of the human condition.
Motion implies a journey from one place and level of existence to another.
Symbolically , the journey begins at birth and embraces a lifetime of experience, culminating naturally and inevitably in death. It is within this context that the spiritual dimension of the artist's thinking and work emerges most compellingly. H understands and anticipates death as yet another station along the shared journey of being, of becoming. For him, whales and dirigibles are metaphors for the released soul. In these singular paintings, as if in a dream of mortality, Bunkall's own soul quietly floats above artifacts of human invention an history, removed from , but still participating in the great journey.