The experimental watercolor: memory and wish 2016

Alfred Freddy Krupa made this experimental watercolor, "Memory and Wish," with thin washes of pigment on paper. I can almost see the artist in the act of painting, the brush dancing across the page, pulled by memory and fueled by desire. The building seems to emerge from a cloud, or maybe it’s dissolving back into one. I wonder what Krupa was thinking when he laid down those watery blues, trying to capture something so elusive and changeable. It reminds me a bit of Turner, all that light and atmosphere, but with a rawer, more immediate feel. Look at how the ink bleeds and blurs, giving the whole scene a dreamlike quality. It’s like he’s not just painting a building but also the feeling of a building, the echo of a place held in the mind. Artists are always riffing off each other, borrowing and remixing ideas across time. Painting lets us hold onto these fleeting moments, to keep the conversation going.