The works presented here were created primarily in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a pivotal period following my relocation to the United States. With access now to traditional oil painting materials, my practice entered a new phase of refinement. Yet it remained fundamentally self-directed—guided not by academic convention, but by disciplined experimentation, sustained studio inquiry, and rigorous self-critique.

This period marks a decisive evolution in my artistic language. I approached each canvas as a site of structural and chromatic investigation, carefully refining tonal relationships, compositional balance, and the expressive potential of surface. Many paintings were revisited, reworked, or set aside to achieve greater clarity and cohesion. The process demanded patience—an ongoing dialogue between intuition and analysis.

The works from this era reflect a clear departure from my earlier experiments of the 1970s. They signal a deeper engagement with oil not merely as a vehicle for image, but as a living material—capable of density, luminosity, tension, and resonance. In these canvases, the physical properties of paint and the philosophical concerns of the figure begin to converge with greater confidence and structural precision, laying the foundation for the mature direction of my practice.