The genuine Gothic style had always been interesting to him, both for the progress it had made in the recovery of realism in plastic representations, and for the luminosity that distinguished it in its architectural manifestations. He enjoyed the nineteenth-century Gothic novel and poetry, the fantastic tale of specters, ghosts and monsters that appeared in nocturnal scenes and funeral or solitary atmospheres, masking crimes or giving prominence to atavistic terrors and ruthless characters.

He also had his own obsessions, his own nightmares, his own inclination for some themes and not others. From a masterful stroke, his hand sprouted astonishing creatures, which could form part of a powerful and evocative bestiary