Hundertwasser's comment on the work

Hans Neuffer also invited me to go to Khartoum and persuaded me to fly to El Fasher, deep in the Sudanese desert. There I was welcomed by a police chief with whom I have been friends for a long time now: Gaafer Mohammed Abdel Rahim, who took me deeper into Dafur Province to Mellit, in the south of the Libyan desert. The rainy season began, and no airplane, no lorry, no camel could get out of there. So I stayed in the "train-station building" and painted until the rainy season was over. Now and then I went to the oasis and only had Arabs and camels as company. There was no European there. I was in heaven to be so cut off from everything. My strangest experience was like the one Münchhausen had with the horse on the tower. Every time it rained I went swimming, for the hollows between the sand dunes were transformed into big ponds. The water was so deep - I was in over my head. One hour later there was nothing left to remind me that a deep lake had been there, and where I had just been swimming dry sand ran through my fingers. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, pp. 528-529)