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This painting was made in one of the distinct epochs of individual tone in Júlia Vajda's entire, consciously developed artistic career full of new challenges. The three horizontally flowing and softly touching stripes that dominate the picture might evoke the image of a landscape divided to water, earth and sky and a prehistoric map drafted based on unknown rules, both at the same time. In the central stripe the strange rhythms of orange, greyish-blue, broken white and black, softening and then intensifying, interrupted or infinite, irregularly waving lines and the hardly perceptible, structured island-patches arranged according to the strange instructions of the artist's will are converted into the whispering commotion of lively, vibrating existence. One can sense the fragility of the situation constructed of these quivering lines; an unknown force may rearrange it in a wink. The only gloomy element of the painting is the ominous formation made up of black triangles appearing on the left of the bottom stripe that conveys the feeling that it is about to move across the foreground of the picture, slowly and reluctantly.
The artist's conscious handling of these elements based on a firm, dualistic view of the world is manifested in her retrospective writings rendering account of the various periods of her art career: "... I wanted to grab one of the poles of reality: the feminine (horizontals, woven forms, a web of lines - soft, watery, cold and passive.) Later I strived to express rather the masculine pole of existence: (diagonals, circle, geometry - fiery, solid, active)."
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