"The 'landscapes' were created en plein air, and are not to be understood as travel impressions, such as every painter brings home in their sketchbook, but rather as surveys and inventories of an ancient Greek region with a historical background, Mani, the ancestral homeland of ancient Laconia, open to the south towards the sea over the threshold of steep rocky coasts [...] I understand my 'landscapes' as topographies, depictions of places. They deal with the relationship between stone, rock, mountain, wall, ruin, tower, thorn, brushwood, bush, tree, sea, and sky, and the burden of centuries of a harsh, warlike life for its inhabitants in a beloved 'homeland' crisscrossed by walls and terraces, almost entirely without water. [...] Ourania's family on her father's side comes from Mani, hence our connection to this land." - Herrfurth in a letter to Prof. Dr. H. Lossow around 1980