The pseudo Rorschach test 1994

Alfred Freddy Krupa made The pseudo Rorschach test using ink on paper. Look at the way the ink bleeds and pools, creating these ambiguous forms. It's like watching clouds shift and morph into different shapes. I can almost feel the artist's hand moving across the paper, guided by intuition, maybe even chance. You can see the push and pull between control and surrender, intention and accident, as they laid down these marks. Maybe the artist was thinking about psychological states or about mirroring? Or about just letting the ink do its thing. It reminds me of practices by artists like Victor Hugo who experimented with inkblots and automatism. It’s all about mark-making and the way those marks can suggest so many different things. It's like the artist is inviting us to project our own thoughts and feelings onto the surface, to find our own meanings in the dance of ink and paper. Painting helps me to think about thinking. And that's the beauty of art, isn't it?