This is a work from the artist’s early period. The time Rojo spent in New York, where she pursued further studies in painting and printmaking from 1985 to 1987 with the aid of a grant from the March Foundation, was crucial to the development of her painterly idiom, influenced by artists like Barnett Newman (1905-1970) and Mark Rothko (1903-1970). In this early period she gradually forged a language and style of her own, rendered here in a work with a strong emotional content, replete with evocations and sensuality.

Rojo always works on the boundary between the abstract and the figurative, and this canvas is excellent proof. We could venture to claim that it contains allusions to landscape, yet this would be merely a conjecture. What we can state however is that, for the artist, expressing feelings and conveying experiences is highly important: “I start out from my surrounding environs, from something that unsettles me without knowing why; there is something in nature that moves me; and this then takes me to another level. From the initial spark to a quest, and from there to an encounter”. An encounter that is produced in this work with painting itself and her know-how, the end result of an inner drive and a consummate control of technique.

Later on, her works started to include subtle architectural references, working with large planes, but at once full of texture and power, as one can see in Gizeh I, the other work by Rojo in the BBVA Collection.