This painting started in 2016 when my walking journey through Burgundy took me to the caves of Arcy-sur-Cure which were inhabited by our ancestors for hundreds of thousands of years. There I saw 28,000-year-old paintings, among them the tracings of hands outlined with ochre. These hands moved me immensely: it was like seeing the act itself. It was like meeting the painter. What is that impulse? How am I imprinted and how do I in turn imprint? The high point of this painting was brushing earth colours onto my hands and carefully placing my own print on the canvas.