Part of a collection of ink paintings created in the 1980s and early 1990s
Accompanying text for the Worpswede Exhibition in 1984

The picture emerges under the impression of the Cold War, the nuclear armament of the major powers despite the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the NATO maneuver “Able Archer”, which simulated nuclear war in 1983 and led to the Soviet Union fearing a nuclear first strike, the American invasion of Grenada under Ronald Reagan in the same year and many other worrying events worldwide.