“A person accumulates over the years. I was born during the gas era of gas lamps, lived through the advent of electricity, witnessed the atomic age and the conquest of space. Can you imagine what that means for a lifetime, and how I could possibly not change in the process? The far side of the moon is a fact, Jules Verne has long been a reality, and the Earth is already different. This cannot but affect one’s perception of the world. The way in which you dip your brush into the paint now can no longer be the same...” Dechko Uzunov, in a 1983 interview