Many refer to meetings with friends, and occasionally have disconcerting
figurative elements, such as the sketched bespectacled head dimly
discerned in the painting DH in Hollywood, 1979 - 85.
In the same way that Willem deKooning's abstractions contained
figurative elements (sometimes with bizarre results), until almost the end of his life, there has been a transitional period with Aho's abstractions in which vignettes of landscape
elements could still be
discerned among the dabs and slashes and undefined forms.