The tooth of time 2013

Alfred Freddy Krupa made "The tooth of time," and in it, everything is in conversation with decay and entropy. It's all about texture, right? The rough-hewn wood, the crumbling stone, the grainy asphalt. Look how the light catches on the splintered edges of the wood; it’s almost like the surface is breathing. The high contrast black and white emphasizes this constant erosion. I find myself thinking about Kurt Schwitters, the way he gathered scraps and fragments from the world around him to make collages. Krupa’s work, in a similar way, takes discarded remnants and arranges them in a way that feels both deliberate and accidental. The arrangement has a totemic quality. Like an altar. This resonates with themes of memory, loss, and the inevitable passage of time, giving us a space to contemplate the transient nature of existence. Is there any other kind?