Fabrics and Cement in the Art of Rodrigo

When I returned to Bogota after living in Berlin, I had to face my ghosts of the past that made me see, during the whole readjustment period, the cold city full of cement and brick, sometimes unsafe, sometimes unkind, totally claustrophobic; I locked myself in, I felt afraid, lonely, and I expressed through fabrics a yearning for elements of freedom that materialized as textures and color emerging from cement.