When he started out as a painter he fell in love with the strong and significant trails his brushes were leaving, and that became his signature move. While he was a student he was eager to learn and to explore, and his desire to imprint a meaning into the painting stayed with him to the present days. His palette is bright, his brush strokes are visible and the dimensions of the canvases are directly inferencing the artist himself. When there is a vertical picture there is a shadow of its creator in front of it. At the beginning of his career in the 60s, the main subject was the bare process of creation, how a painting was made and how the method looked like. They looked like someone was taking a photo of the painting process and merged them into a larger piece. That reminded him of filmmaking and that is how this three art directions lead to the original abstract painting he is now famous for doing.