Morning skyline 2015

Alfred Freddy Krupa made this photograph of a skyline, sometime around morning I guess. Look at how the buildings are soft silhouettes, smudged out by the fog. It’s a process of obscuration. There’s something so beautiful about the way the light dissolves the hard edges of the buildings. The whole image feels like it’s breathing, expanding and contracting with the mist. And that sun, wow, it is like a pure shot of energy, right in the middle. It almost hurts to look at, but in a good way. It reminds me of some of Gerhard Richter's blurry photos, those paintings that seem to be caught between representation and abstraction. Both artists, in their own way, are playing with the idea of visibility. What do we see, how do we see it, and what happens when that vision is disrupted? Is it a painting, is it a photo? Who knows, and who cares!