"I had a table in my studio on which I used to carve, to try out the pencils. One day I realized I wanted to continue with it as a painting. I painted it in very dark colors, brown, black. You see, here, for instance, there was also a triangle, and the Léger reproduction hadn't yet been attached. The painting was at the Venice biennale. When I arrived there and saw it I felt at once that here, on top, I needed a colorful patch. When the painting came back I started changing it at