Fernando Rodríguez is best known for a series of works he made in the 1990s, in "collaboration" with a fictional character he invented: an elderly rural charcoal seller named Francisco de la Cal, who had been blinded in the Revolution. Precaución, however, is related to another of the artist’s most important themes, explored in the series De una experiencia colectiva (About a Collective Experience). In works on paper and three-dimensional sculptures, Rodríguez configures multiple, near-identical figures in densely packed lines and precariously towering verticals that speak of life in a socialist society, exploring the psychological effects of collectivism.