Pollock's totemic figure compositions won favorable attention in the New York art world, and he soon began exhibiting annually. In 1945, he married the painter Lee Krasner, and they moved to a house in Springs, Long Island. The following year he converted a barn on the property to a studio where he could create larger works, working on the floor rather than on the wall. But it was only in 1947 that he decisively adopted the technique of dripping or pouring enamel or aluminum paint from a stick or brush moved through the air above the canvas. At first, the dripped lines of aluminum or enamel paint elaborated or concealed already-existing figure compositions, but Pollock soon began to rely exclusively on his new technique.