Hundertwasser's comment on the work

This is a picture about high water, like 609 Shipwreck. Even the trees are under water. I was living for two months with a French family I was friends with in a castle on Corsica and put together picture grounds, primed and painted within the cool, thick walls, while streams of tourists passed by in the searing heat outside. I had this feeling of comfort when painting in the barrel vaults on Santorin, too, in the cool mountains of Tahiti, in the dwelling caves of Matmata in Tunisia, where I had to put on a sweater even though the hot desert was up above, and in my mill on the Kamp, where it was warm at my wood-burning stove while there were often sub-zero temperatures outside. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, pp. 618-619)