Cantos rodados

This book collects more than four hundred aphorisms written by Andrés Rábago between 2023 and 2025, alongside 129 drawings created during the same period—all previously unpublished. They are gathered in a single volume because, as the author states, "the fact that the texts and drawings originate from the same era and a similar state of receptivity lends them an evident harmony or kinship, allowing for a highly positive underlying unity within such a fragmentary structure." Yet, the images are not illustrations of the aphorisms, nor are the texts subordinate to the drawings. Instead, writing and drawing serve as parallel forms of thought and creation, seeking to prompt reflection in the reader based on their own individual interpretations. Consequently, in this edition, words and images are juxtaposed randomly and fortuitously, without any attempt to force a correspondence or mutual alignment—an approach that would clearly serve no purpose. In doing so, Andrés Rábago once again reveals himself—much like El Roto, one of his alter egos—to be a lucid, committed, and unconventional observer of the human condition, here focusing more intently on the metaphysical and the invisible.