 Kuksi has also completed seminars in "Old Masters – New Visions" in Austria and Germany, in 2002 and 2005 respectively.Kuksi's influences include the Baroque and Rococo periods.He has described how he feels more in belonging to the 'Old World' and that his artwork is very much a reaction to "the corrupt and demoralized fall of modern-day society – a place where new beginnings, new wars, new philosophies, and new endings exist."