Hundertwasser's comment on the work

The terrace layers attracted me as if by magic. At the time I didn't yet know how I would use them. (from: Cat. Albertina, Vienna, 1974, p. 72) This is the visually experienced origin of the sediment-layer lines: striped material. Tight spiral lines are a major component of my work, e. g., 52 Coffee-Mill on Hand-Made Rug, 53 Tables in a Trattoria with Red and White Striped Table Cloths, 58 Houses and Port of Portofino, 75 Gepflügter Acker am Rundhang im Regen (Ploughed Field on Round Slope in the Rain), and of course the Hamburg Spiral of 1959 and, most recently, the sediment layers of the Forest Spiral of Darmstadt, which has been under construction since 1999. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 102)