The artist’s creativity in essence is universal and timeless, as influences imbued within the paintings span across many cultures, philosophies, and ages:Technical influences include pointillism, the signature of Seurat in the 1800’s and Pousette Dart in more recent times, both employing oil paints as a medium. Painting with gemstone pigments has been employed for thousands of years by a variety of artisans from Japan to Persia, in which the medium consists of precious stones and metals. The art can contain pure gold and silver for example, as well as sapphire, onyx, and minerals more familiar to geologists such as witherite (phosphourescent mineral) or muonionalusta (mineral from a meteor).Finally, the principles of numerology as interpreted by the Fibonacci sequence, the Golden Rule, the Vedas, the I Ching, the Gematria, and many other sacred scriptures are incorporated into the artwork.The artist’s Mirage Mountainscape Series is often compared to China’s Zhang Daqian, whose auction price surpassed record-holding Picasso for most expensive artwork sold at auction, in 2011 at $507 million USD. Collectors have compared the artist’s Akasa Series to the works of Mark Rothko, whose Violet, Green, and Red is known to be the third most expensive painting sold privately, at $186 million USD.