Gary's style in painting, architecture, and interior design is visually dense and highly textured, every surface covered with designs and images. His house features antique furniture and equipment as well as meticulously arranged, eye- catching displays of medicine bottles, tobacco cans, beverage bottles, dishes, and tea boxes. He has adorned walls with his own paintings and textile pieces. Near it hangs an embroidered piece, begun by Gary in his youth and finished only recently, that he worked on when emotionally troubled. Above it is an icon of St. Mamas, the hermit saint.
Potted plants sit on tables, and vines climb the walls.
He chiseled Polish and Ukrainian designs on wood beams. Above windows, hanging from the ceiling, nailed to the walls, and resting in many nooks and crannies are old tools, equipment, and utensils. Gary says he feels comfortable with old objects and salvaged building materials, for they have a spirit, a history, a meaning. It's like an old church whose walls are permeated with prayers and the petitions of the people, he says, which contrasts with the sterility of a modern one. Gary's mother and her brother rejected the ethnic language, customs, and Orthodox religion of their parents.