In the process od excising all that was not essential, Michaeledes by 1958, was producing wholly non-representational works that were similar to the abstraction prevalent in Europe and America after World War II

Dark colours in shades of grey figure in the piece Untitled from 1958. With a free—but controlled—gestural brushwork and a tool of some sort he fashions horizontal bands of light of varying intensity. Despite its sense of freedom, the balanced composition adheres to a specific architecture in allocating the quantity and quality of light: namely, the passage from darkness to light.