What's with an ugly large disorientated grouper in the deep blue with snippets of Motherwell splotches on top, and in the next picture a set of bottles, boxes and containers set against a technicolour checked backdrop? Nothing and everything. Philip Guston would have you know that “Every one can make picture” (1966), an expansion of Joseph Beuy’s dictum: “Every man is an artist.” As Filipino artist Raul Rodrigues would have you know, it’s a visual diary and in his works, he “articulates all sorts of indeterminate realisties, raw experiences that are not fixed, stable, or even understandable….the odd, the indeterminate, the irreconciliable … Rodriguez harnesses and preserves the immediacy of such experiences.” (Mikey Atienza, writing in www.musicalplayphilippines.com dated July 24, 2012). He added that Rodriguez is angling after a kind of “contrapuntal images” that Rodriguez acquiesced as “tThe imbalance, the lopsidedness, the slant, the oddness…” Not surprisingly, his works were said to be inspired by the natural lines found in plant life during a short stint in hilly Baguio. Yes, why clutter up the world with pictures? Rodrigues was one of the four Filipino artists selected in the Selected Memory exhibition at Richard Koh Fine Art in collaboration with Finale Art Life (Manila) in November 2009. The other three were Pow Martinez, Annie Cabigting and Lara de los Reyes. Rodriguez studied Fine Art at the University of the Philippines (1989-1994), after Bible studes between 1979-1984. He had a stint as animator at Fil-Cartoons, a Hanna-Barbera subsidiary. His only solo, outside university, was titled Revisions at the MAG:NET Gallery, Manila, in 2006.