I moved to Austin in 1985. Here I started painting from life and in situ. I did quite a few paintings of Town Lake and I started looking at the relationship between the horizon and the sky. I continued to develop themes I started in San Antonio, groups of people and extreme close-ups of ordinary activities. It was during this time that the paintings became much more personal and I was able to express ideas, thoughts and feelings through my paintings. But I stopped painting fantasy kind of paintings, Chain Driven from this album is an example.