He saw that the work of the artists was intimately connected to their life in New York. It was a natural step, then, for him to turn to subjects near at hand, and then to photo-realism.
他觀察到紐約藝術家們的作品，與生活關係密切，於是也開始取材身邊景物作畫，自然走上照相寫實之路。