He painted series and represented objects that were everyday, even banal, yet also charged with universal recognizable symbolism.
His main motifs are flags,
targets,
rulers,
the fragments of human anatomy
His marks articulate matter on a surface so that it becomes an objective correlative of sensations such as looking without focusing, seeing things grow, seeing them sicken, seeing the passing of a day, feeling threatened, feeling nothing, feeling elated.
Marks of varying tempo, weight and direction caress and bruise and elaborate and disrupt and erode the familiar forms of everyday emblems - flags, letters, numbers,
The conceit in Flag is to represent an object in such a way that its edges coincide with the edges of the canvas.
The space between the object and the spectator is squeezed out of existence
He is one who has always been driven to do things by working on some surface or another with some tool or object or another and/or some medium or another.
'To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist'
He has been subdued to a continuing self-renewal; his more recent production is widely held that it has been arcane, cerebral and aethetically dry..'
His compulsion to experiment.
He is a maker. It may be that focusing on the making diminishes thinking about what one intends the work to mean, leaves the unconscious with room in which to operate, allows meaning to come out without interference