The world's first artist to write about it:

In the shimmering desert heat, a mirage drifts across the Dubai horizon when a pointed question posed to Katharina cuts through the atmosphere: "What's your Fame Factor?" What stands between you and your artwork? Why can't you be found online? Why don't you have artist biographies like other artists?

A question, uttered so casually yet unavoidable, forces Katharina to drop her mask. In that moment, her house of cards, maintained for a lifetime, collapses, and nothing remains the same. For she must reveal what she hides within:

She runs from art, yet can never escape it.

This book arises from this obsession with painting. It is an invitation.

To see art as a passionate love affair. A great love with which one cannot live, nor without it. A fissure in the rock through which memories are forced forth.

Blockages steal her breath.

Whirlpools pull her into the depths of her memories, and darkness robs her of clear vision. Amidst all this, she struggles to keep her footing through writing. The reader is drawn into a maelstrom of luxurious party life, money, power, and the influence of an artistic family, sucked into a reality of deception, fear, and destruction. For this tragic disintegration of her youth, Katharina relentlessly settles accounts with art. This illustrated book describes the life of an artist who has drawn a boundary line, like a ridgeline in a mountain range, between herself and her painting, and who, like a helpless dancer who has lost her ballet shoes, walks barefoot along these raw and sharp stones. The air is thin, and a descent is impossible.

This path describes the artist Katharina Sophia Ludewig up to the present day, where she invents her own painting technique, KATHAS Cuttig Art, whose cuts in her artworks express her inner pain. A book like an open gate. Those who enter it are immersed in a story that views art from a different perspective.