The moonlight reality 2019

Alfred Freddy Krupa made "The moonlight reality" with ink on paper. I can only imagine the scratching and blotting, the sweeping and swirling that went into making this picture. The artist has let loose with the brush, as if possessed, drawing and redrawing the figures, hardly giving us a chance to catch our breath. I sympathize with the artist here, having gone through a similar process myself. The tension, that seesawing between control and surrender. The need to cover the surface with marks, only to then rub them out, or cross them out, or build them up again. It's all here in the texture. A black line that goes from here to there. Doesn't this remind you of those painters, who, throughout the ages, have sought to capture the raw and uninhibited energy of the subconscious? For me, all painters are in conversation with each other, as they try to capture fleeting moments, inner visions, dreamscapes, and the ambiguity of the world around them. The moonlight reality, indeed.