How this image came about is pretty unusual (for me it’s unique), but the way it was finally finished could neither be more convincing nor more consistent. The basis, a pure pencil sketch, showed only the two slippers, raw drafted, the two amoeba-like shapes without filling and the little hearts, all joined together by the “garlands” in the above middle of the image. I completely worked out this image. The two persons were not to be seen. They are missing so to speak, although everything defining them could be felt. But how this could be visualized, without on the one hand taking the magical away from these slippers, without breaking their unrestrained kitschy appearance on the other, an utter necessity to arrive at an outstanding image. I had no clue. But when I suddenly saw that I could use two given line segments in order to let two faces grow out of the plane, a completely new image emerged, which simultaneously, visually and content wise, was the logical completion of what one could sense in the beginning. I had never experienced such a twist in this way with reference to a total composition.