This image really deserves its title, because the way it came about always felt just crazy to me and, as it was the case with the image “Japanese Winter”, this feeling was triggered by the need to create according to a “theme” , because a competition in Japan made this a condition, but complying always gives me the creeps. So I looked at the white frame on my monitor and I was just angry at myself for even trying to comply. So I rather instantly decided to quit and in a spontaneous move I sort of crossed out the image frame with a vertical and a horizontal line, like cutting it into four pieces. Indeed the reason for starting the image was forgotten, but the “cut” lines were fascinating. In order to moderate their rigidness I added a waved line to both, again just meant as the edge of a color plane, but without the aim of perfection in making the original line disappear. I then looked at the work for quite some time and then, in an instant I added another “cut” to one of the four fields, stalling again. This process repeated itself until during the course of a day all basic lines were created. And this completely untypical staccato also repeated itself every time within the next weeks whenever I decided to go on with this image, staring at it maybe for an hour, then finishing a part with extreme speed and saving it. When I had finished this image, I just thought, “that was crazy” and it took rather long, before I not only knew it was good, but felt that way about it.