One might wonder, even in our day and age, whether this kind of painting is beautiful. And this would be precisely the one question that does not concern the painter. His main objective seems to be the transition from the composition of an image into the deep waters of painting, both in the descriptive and in the literal sense. The ritualistic passage over the bridge, the large curves like the wake of the rippling mountains fencing the background, the flashes and reflections in the sky and the water, man, small, walking: these are the narrative elements of the work.

Counterpoint of crude volumes in the composition, few colors, simplicity and economy, balance between light and darkness: these are the visual-art values of the work. And they are identical to the substance, the content, of painting: Counterpoint, unfussiness, clarity and economy, the ritualistic passage of the painter into his image, the symbolic and real passage of man.