Makarov challenges the bounds of perception and beguiles the senses by enshrouding his subjects in a foggy transparent veil. Reality is merged with the fantastic; his intention is to impart visually ascertainable elements while veiling reality and atmospherically altering the scenes. Subjects are alienated in favour of suggestive intensity. The more the portrayal departs from its embodiment of reality—though invariably allowed to remain explicable—and the subjective impression prevails, the better it is capable of calling forth heterogeneous but illusionary associations.