Trip south--Seville and Malaga, Spain 4 1952

Robert Frank made this work, "Trip South--Seville and Malaga, Spain 4", by taking a photographic process and adding to it with found marks and hand-drawn numbers. This additional layer acknowledges artmaking as a fluid process where new ideas can emerge through free-flowing experimentation. The materiality of the work is intriguing; he's not just presenting the photograph, but layering it with red numerals. These marks, crude and childlike, don't obscure the images entirely, but they do alter our engagement. They become part of the narrative, not just an addition. The physicality of the medium, the way the red pigment sits on the photographic surface, adds another dimension to the whole piece. I'm reminded a little of Cy Twombly in the way he's scrawling over images, suggesting an interest in the way art embraces ambiguity, leaning into multiple interpretations, rather than fixed meanings.