As Maria Lassnig wrote, "one figure on a painting tells no story, two figures already tell a story and from 3 figures on a theatre play starts". We have here 3 figures called “creatures” on a red background, red, the color of intense emotion for Lassnig. These creatures lie on their back in a very vulnerable position, representing 3 different body-feelings of Lassnig’s own body. A creature is a lifeform between human and animal, there is no head anymore, no feet, no hands, just the pure body- sensation of the inner self, what Lassnig called body-awareness.

"When in my painting, I became tired of analytically depicting nature, I searched for a reality that was more fully in my possession than the exterior world, and I found it waiting for me in the body- house in which I dwell, the realest and clearest reality..". —Maria Lassnig