The harmonious color scheme, created directly on the canvas through numerous delicate color blends in shades of white, beige, gray, light gray, and sienna orange, and extending across a series of works as seen in this painting, *Auf Spurensuche* (*In Search of Traces*), drapes like a soothing veil over the material texture enriched with collages and ash. Visible paper collage elements, scratch marks in layers of material, or shapes and elements rendered in ink and chalk in red and black lend the works of this creative phase a lightness and softness. They also entice viewers to search for traces.