The moonlight reality 2019

Alfred Freddy Krupa made this work, The Moonlight Reality, at some point during his career, though the exact date eludes us. It’s a flurry of black ink and ghostly faces on paper, all about the joy of letting the hand lead the way. The piece is a jumble of marks, some thick and assertive, others thin and tentative. I see these scribbles building up these semi-formed faces, with this one face with lavender eyes in the corner standing out. The texture is raw, the paper almost fighting back against the ink, but the artist embraces this struggle. It reminds me a little of Cy Twombly's scribbled drawings, not in style so much as in spirit; this shared love of the messy, the imperfect, and the utterly human. These artists aren't trying to give us answers, but instead, they are inviting us to ask questions.