Lind's puzzle-like work mixes the abstract techniques of the neo-expressionists with the patterns of the traditional Pacific quilts known as tivaevae. In his early work, Lind built scraps of mixed media, including wallpaper, cloth, linoleum and tarpaulin, into kaleidoscopic textured collages of everyday life that draw on the crafts of his cultural heritage. More recently, Lind has refined his work to enamel and acrylic, creating jewel-like geometries of woven colour thick with drips of paint. For Lind, painting is both conceptual, exploring the contrast between the "slow moving soft lines and vibrant colours" of traditional Polynesian arts and the "hard-edged, sometimes uncompromising nature of more developed nations", and tactile, an expression of his pure joy in the physical act of spilling glossy enamel onto a clean canvas.