The Banija bridge in Karlovac 1995

Alfred Freddy Krupa made this ink drawing of The Banija bridge in Karlovac sometime around 1995. Look at the way the ink sort of pools in places, almost bleeding into the paper. I can imagine Krupa hunched over this piece, quickly laying down lines. He must have been feeling the cool air coming off the water, trying to capture the essence of the bridge. He must have been thinking about how its reflection made the bridge seem to disappear into the river. The color palette is reduced to sepia tones, but the bridge is caught in this network of strong horizontal and vertical lines, like a skeleton. The bridge has a twin; its image is reflected and refracted in the surface of the water. As a painter, these dualities and after-images are super interesting.