I lived in a wild place where I had taken along only one art reproduction: the Storm by Giorgione and for a long time the desire to make my own storm, in a contemporary genre, obsessed me. The creation of the lightning flash of Giorgione by a luminous gesture was the key and the solution for my image where I represented myself accompanied by the ass, symbol of the artist.

I remember having translated in this small house Salvador Dali's fifty magic secrets for painting. When I showed the painting to Ernst Fuchs, he was convinced that the landscape was Corsican. I am satisfied that it is from nowhere.