Submissive Mechanic 2013

Rodrigo Franzao made this abstract work, Submissive Mechanic, with what looks like crayons, paper, and collage. It’s all about the making, you can see the process. The texture is raw, like straight out of a sketchbook. There's so much energy in those crayon lines, blues, reds, purples, all scribbled and layered. Then, bam! These flat, bold geometric shapes cut across the chaos. Take the big red shape in the lower section – it's like a stubborn exclamation point amid all that swirling color, adding a layer of dimension. It’s like Franzao's having a conversation between wild abandon and a kind of controlled order. The drawing reminds me a little of Twombly, with its playful, scribbled surfaces. It's like Franzao's inviting us to see the world not as one fixed image, but as a bunch of pieces we can rearrange. Art is an ongoing conversation and exchange of ideas across time, a space which embraces ambiguity and multiple interpretations over fixed or definitive meanings.