Chef de Mulu

In Busy Traffic Line, Chef de Mulu transforms his personal impressions of modern urban life into a language of energetic abstraction. At the bottom, faint outlines of a city by the water emerge, while above, the canvas erupts into vibrating fields of colour: movement, noise, and friction expand until they dominate the entire composition.

Radiant reds and yellows radiate an almost tangible heat, making the horizon shimmer. Blue and green strokes cut through this heat like arteries of traffic or water lines, concentrating energy while generating tension. The dynamism recalls Futurism, where speed, motion, and the roar of modernity were visually captured.

Yet Busy Traffic Line is not a futurist celebration of the machine, but a subjective, expressionist experience. In the tradition of Abstract Expressionism, Chef de Mulu translates the hectic pace of urban existence into fields of colour that make friction, pressure, and movement visible. The work conveys not so much a specific scene as a visceral sensation: the noise, heat, and pulsation of city life.

Thus, Busy Traffic Line becomes both an emblem of energy and of strain – an image condensing the overwhelming force of the city and the tension between attraction and burden in modern existence.