Old tower of Ražanac at Adriatic Sea 2007

Here's a 50 x 70 cm drawing, Old tower of Ražanac at Adriatic Sea, by Alfred Freddy Krupa. I can imagine Krupa with a fine pen in hand, making thousands of small decisions. Look at the way he builds up the tower, the landscape, with these repetitive lines. The lines become the tower, the land, the sea. They are close together, then further apart. The white of the paper is the negative space, like it is breathing. I wonder what he was thinking when he made this? It has a beautiful contemplative mood. Does it reference oriental art? Does it remind me of etching? How does it sit with his wider practice? Artists are always in dialogue across time, in their mark-making. This work really shows that conversation, it invites us to consider the multiplicity of art and its meanings.