This is why he has preserved the inscription Sora in legible form. Even though the pigment coalesces into an image on the canvas, the picture is only a collateral effect of the act of painting. This process seems to be the more important factor, in that Todor does not conceptualise or fetishise it as the abstract Expressionists used to. The man with a paintbrush, standing before the canvas, constantly hurls himself into simultaneously experiencing birth and doom.