The themed cycle - birds - inspired him for a number of years, and he evolved this theme in his figural sculpture, as well as on the wall reliefs. He managed to achieve maximum expression and poeticism by simple, reduced and sparse resources.
After his father's death in 1964 he dealt in wood plastic. This twist in his creation was motivated by the desire to thus continue his father's work, who left quite an opus of valuable achievements. But in spite of that in the technical processing he remained faithful to the stylizations of his native village. So his artistic expression was given a form of traditional and autochthonous culture of the Slavic south and the Byzantine mystical content. At that time Kičin intensively shifted to the wood as well, so that at one point it seemed that this material would squeeze ceramics completely out of the artist's interest. But pottery was his original commitment to which he always returned.
