Branching
The branches of the tree in
Birth
germinate in
Branching
which bases its subject on the war of liberation in Latin America.
The composition depicts a three-part scene in which a ponderous tree-trunk builds a pathway through the left and right sections forming a horseshoe around the central figures. It encircles and penetrates the planes allowing the underlying layers to give full weight to the nature and relationships of the figures in conveying the resistance and struggle for liberation.
A sense of inner tension and restlessness are echoed by forms and patterns crystallizing around the apparition of faces reflecting those of revolutionary figures and liberators Simón Bólivar, José de San Martin, Antonio José Sucre, Francisco de Miranda, Miguel Hidalgo, and José María Morelos.
