The Battle of Hernen is an animation that Robbie Cornelissen made in 2018 for the manifestation "A Soft Whisper" in which seven artists made a work of art for a castle in Gelderland, The Netherlands
This drawing is derived from this. The animation starts with figurative images of a castle and an advancing army. The actual fighting is portrayed with abstract images in which pointed shapes collide. This is followed by more figurative sequences of the battlefield with broken lances and left behind helmets and armor.
This drawing is a pencil-drawn version of one of the images at the end of the animation. The composition with lances laid out in perspective is a reference to the famous triptych by Paolo Uccello of the Battle of San Romano where the lances of the horsemen accentuate the perspective of the space.