Windows 2018

Alfred Freddy Krupa made this photograph, called Windows, seemingly without any manipulation of tone - or did he? There is a kind of dance happening between the stony base and the brickwork above, and our eyes are drawn to the two windows at the mid-point. It is difficult to discern what the windows may look out on, but the stone and the brick suggest the history of a people, and a place. Look at the textures, at the way the stones have been set, how the brick is eroding. Time is pressing on it all. It is tempting to put this photograph alongside those by Walker Evans, or Bernd and Hilla Becher. But the rough hewn quality of Krupa's piece sets it apart. In truth, the making of art is a continuum, where each artist takes from the past to create something new. What Krupa will make next is for him to know, and for us to anticipate.