The peak of the Klek Mnt 2008

Alfred Freddy Krupa made this drawing called "The peak of the Klek Mnt" with ink on paper. The stark contrast gets straight to the point, doesn’t it? It's like a zen koan in visual form. Look how the ink bleeds and feathers out at the edges, especially on the right-hand side – you can almost feel the brush dancing across the paper. There's a real sense of immediacy, a directness in the gesture. I’m interested in that dance between control and chance that’s always present when you make art, and you can really see it here. It reminds me a bit of Brice Marden's calligraphic drawings, where the line becomes almost like a map of the artist's movements. But here, instead of a person, it’s a mountain. Maybe art is always just one big, long conversation, across time, across places. And the best art is when you can hear those echoes, and still feel something new.