On the rails 2016

Alfred Freddy Krupa captured this black and white image, titled 'On The Rails,' freezing a moment in time, a landscape in the making. The image seems to have emerged, as if through a fog of perception, revealing itself with each glance, a process of trial and error. I imagine Krupa standing there, the cold seeping into his boots, thinking about how those stark lines of the rails cut through the soft snow, the plume of smoke rising in the distance. It makes me think about the texture, the grain of the snow, and the smooth steel of the rails under it all. The grayscale emphasizes the surface, the flat planes, and the way the light finds the edges. You know, it reminds me a little of some of Gerhard Richter’s landscapes, those blurry, almost out-of-focus images that make you question what you’re seeing. Artists are always in conversation with each other, even across different mediums, playing with perception, memory, and the materiality of the world around them, pushing each other to see differently. It’s a process, an exchange, always open to interpretation.