Artwork > Sticks & Branches

Severed Limb
Acrylic on linen
80 x 80cm
2022
November 2021
Acrylic on linen
80 x 80cm
2021
Sticks and Branches 6 - Tumbleweed
Acrylic on Canvas
50 x 50cm
2019
Fire Pile
Acrylic on Canvas
50 x 60cm
2019
Witching Stick
Acrylic on Canvas
50 x 60cm
2018
Branches
Acrylic on Canvas
50 x 60cm
2018
branches, limbs, trees, nature, sticks, piles, decay, order, process, fine art, fine artist, chris hernandez
Acrylic on Canvas
50 x 60cm
2018
Little Baby 20 - Leafy Tumbleweed
Acrylic on Wood
18 x 18cm
2019
Little Baby 19 - Tumbleweed
Acrylic on Wood
18 x 18cm
2019
Little Baby 18 - Winter Shit Stack
Acrylic on Wood
18 x 18cm
2018
Little Baby 17 - Big Pile
Acrylic on Wood
18 x 18cm
2018
Little Baby 15 - Various Sticks
Acrlyic on Wood
18 x 18cm
2018
sticks, rocks, mountains, stones, UFO, realism, fine art, representational art, decay, deconstruction, construction, order, process
Acrylic on Wood Panel
18 x 18cm
2018

Like rocks, sticks serve as a model representation of nature and the sinusoidal forces moving and shaping the environment. While rocks are mineral in form, sticks are biological and being so, they have undergone a transformation that stones and rocks cannot. They have passed from living material into death. Sticks, like stones, are broken remnants shed from the parent form. They are the discarded, dead, limbs which have been given new purpose through their material use. They become tools, weapons, sources of construction, ornamentation, and even fuel, thus enriching and sustaining other life. The work therefore explores the process of life and decay, organization and entropy, followed by re-ordering and rebirth.