Some of his paintings were abstract and expressionistic, others were surrealistic, phantasmagorical. Genealogies of a "phantasmagorical" character assign to him a Castilian parentage. Secondly, strange creatures wander through the forest, left here after a previous phantasmagorical experiment. The sides of the cross also feature knotwork designs, above phantasmagorical creatures. In this way, Benjamin expanded upon Marx's statement on the phantasmagorical powers of the commodity. This idea was described as "phantasmagorical" by "The Washington Post". After a process of arranging, re-arranging, and exploring potential variables, a phantasmagorical world would emerge.