Robert Fernandez

  • New and Forthcoming
  • Current Book Projects
    • Living Poetry: A Memoir
    • Recovery [Poems]
    • The Chimeras [Poems]
    • Bodegόn [Poems]
    • Antigonne [Poems]
    • Untitled (Brains on the Floor | Girls of Fire | Book of Hours) {Poems]
    • Forms [Poems]
    • Niños del Sol [Poems]
    • The Snow Man [&] Summer of Love [Poems]
    • Crowns [Poems]
    • The Living [Poems]
    • Jetsam [Poems] [In Progress]
    • Nocturne: Selected Poems of José Asunción Silva
  • Paintings
    • Paintings 2026
    • Paintings 2025
    • Paintings 2024
    • Paintings 2023
    • Paintings 2022
    • Paintings 2021
    • Paintings 2020
  • Ongoing Visual Art Series
    • Caballero
    • Dark Corals
    • Sunflowers
    • Moths, Mariposas, Dragons
    • Torch
    • Culebras
    • Shells
    • After the Flood
    • Sphinx
    • Orpheus
    • Valleys
    • Fans
    • Venus
    • The Infinite
    • Love
    • Beaus
    • Suns
    • Snakes
    • The Edge
    • Antigone
    • Vampires
    • Geswork
  • Drawings
    • Dark Corals [2026}
    • Beau [30X144in] [2026]
    • Beau [18X23in] [2026]
    • Dark Coral [51X51in] [2026]
    • Melancholy [42X30in] [2026]
    • Dark Corals (Sketches), 1-15 [5X3in each] [2025]
    • Coral Picasso (Interleaf) [12.5X10.75 & 12X14in] [2025]
    • Poet [2023]
    • Faust [2.6X1.5in] [2023]
    • Torch (Sketches) [2022]
    • Culebras (la Florida) [11X15in] [2022]
    • Spring Break [3X5in] [2022]
    • Sakutarō Waltz [18X24in] [2022]
    • Crucifixion (After Cimabue) [2022]
    • Primeval Glory (Paper) [18X12in] [2022]
    • Venus (Sketches) [5X3in] [2021]
    • Fans (Valleys of Neptune) [2021]
    • Sand $ (Print) [65X40in] [2021]
    • Jirafa [2021]
    • Things Fall Apart [18X12in] [2021]
    • Antigòn [18X24in] [2021]
    • Brujaha [18X24in] [2021]
    • Beau (Dope) [2021] [12.5X10.75in]
    • Dracula [18X24in] [2021]
    • Don Juan [18X24in] [2021]
    • Beach Bums [12X9in] [2021]
    • Hippies [18X24in] [2021]
    • D. [2021]
    • Heartbreak Hotel [4.375X1.375in] [2021]
    • Transition (Manatee ↔ Dracula) [24X18in] [2021]
    • Draculas [24X18in] [2021]
    • The Infinite [Blue] [2020]
    • The Infinite [Purple Yellow] [2020]
    • The Infinite [18X24in] [2020]
    • The Infinite [17X14in] [2020]
    • Children of the Revolution [24X18in] [2021]
    • Ouroboros [24X18in] [2020]
    • Los Rebeldes [2020]
    • Mercury [18X12in] [2020]
    • Culebras [11X15n] [2018-2020]
    • Desert Alchemy [12X18in] [2020]
    • Lorca [9X12in] [2020]
    • Babel [100X45in] [2020]
    • Knights of the Round Table [~8'X18in] [2020]
    • Shut the Window [11X8.5in] [2020]
    • La Familia [12X18in] [2020]
    • Madness [18X12in] [2020]
    • Book of Moths [8X5.5in] [2020]
    • Naga (after Bill Traylor) [18X24in] [2020]
    • Wheatfield with Crows [18X24in] [2020]
    • Shred the Breast [24X18in] [2020]
    • Serpent and Rainbow [24X18in] [2020]
    • Dracula [24X18in] [2020]
    • Hearts [24X18in] [2020]
    • Migration [9X12in] [2019]
    • Love [2020] [12X9in]
    • Cara Mia [12X6in] [6X4in] [2019]
    • Enter Sandman [24X18in] [2019]
    • Sun Ward [18X24in] [2019]
    • Camel [24X18in] [2019]
    • Total War [9X12in] [2019]
    • Sunday [10.75X12.5in] [2019]
    • Easter [12.5X10.75in] [2019]
    • Rienbao [12.5X10.75in] [2019]
    • Sunstead [12.5X10.75in] [2019]
    • War Child [12.5X10.75.in] [2019]
    • Antigon/Ella [ES] [Doubled Sided] [28X13.5in] [2019]
    • Dionysus Christ [24X18in] [2019]
    • Lyre [12.5X10.75in] [2019]
    • Sundaze [12X9in] [2019]
    • Plague [18X24in] [2018]
    • My Foolishness [12X8in] [2018]
    • Sun Is Shining II [2017]
    • Illustrations for "Ballad of the Little Seeds" [2017]
    • Two Diamond Earrings in Robert's Ear [18X24in] [2016]
    • Winter Dream [8.5X11in] [2016]
    • Chump Change [24X18in] [2016]
  • Art Books
    • blood / seeps / through / the windows [18X24in] [2020]
    • Wormwood [8.1X6in] [2020]
    • Broken Bottle [9X5.5in] [2020]
    • Coronation [12X9in] [2020]
    • Transfer of Violence [18X24in] [2020]
    • Toro Oro Boro [6X12in] [2019]
    • Rintrah Roars [8.75X5.75in] [2019]
    • Judgement Day [8X5.5in] [2019]
    • Book of the Blue Knight [4.375X1.375in] [2018]
    • Traité de Petit Tactiques [12.5X10.75in] [2017]
    • Scratch 272 [10.5X8in] [2017]
    • Toba [8.5X6in] [2017]
    • Las Difícils [2017]
    • Symposium [5X3 inches] [2017]
    • Grand Grimoire [12.5X10.75in] [2016]
    • Dumbbell [2016] [Photo Only]
    • Pele [2016] [Photo Only]
    • Diablo [2016] [Photo Only]
    • Petit Grimoire [5X4.5in] [2016]
    • It Was Like France [6X4in] [2016]
    • Colombian Gold [2015]
    • Pearls Before Swine [2012]
  • Video
  • Video Paintings
  • Object Sequences
    • Everything in Its Right Place [2023]
    • Andenken [12.5X14in] [2020]
    • Minotaur [2017]
    • Herr Lindworm [2017]
    • De Profundis [2017]
    • The Time of the Assassins [2016]
    • Let the Crushed Bones Rejoice [2016]
    • Like Some Boys [2016]
    • Like Some Boys (Alternates) [2016]
    • Savonarola [2016]
    • Antigone [2016]
    • Faust [2016]
    • Sappho's Busted Smile [2016]
    • Super Bubble (after Mallarmé) [2016]
  • Objects
    • Recoveries (Tapestries) [2023]
    • Rehearsal (Mulholland Drive) [10X8in] [2022]
    • Antonin Artaud Selected Writings Edited, and with an Introduction by Susan Sontag [5X3in] [2022]
    • We're Not Serious When We're Seventeen [2022]
    • Ave Maria [In Progress] [2022]
    • D.A.R.E. (This Was Probably Worn by Some...) [2022]
    • El Otro Lado [7.5X4.75] [2021]
    • Vowels | Light on Ruins | The Yellow House [3.5X5.5in] [2020]
    • Rehearsal (Rodrigo) [10X8in] [2020]
    • Rehearsal (Marie) [10X8in] [2020]
    • Rehearsal (Lilica) [8X10in] [2020]
    • Rehearsal (Hyena) [7.5X5.5in] [2020]
    • Rehearsal (Arthur) [10X8in] [2020]
    • Magic and Reality [10.75X8in] [2020]
    • Byron [2020]
    • Puerto del Sol [2018]
    • Deck (Crushed Bones) [31X8in] [2017]
    • Untitled (Finger Trap) [.75X5.5in] [2016]
    • Neck Braces [41X55in] [2016]
    • Sappho's Lyre [4.5X3in] [2016]
  • Digital Works or Analog-Digital Hybrids
    • Recovered Pearls [2026]
    • The Skeleton Dance [2026]
    • Nosferatu [2026]
    • Caballero 4 [2026]
    • Caballero 3 [2026]
    • Caballero 2 [2026]
    • Caballero 1 [2026]
    • Caballero (Aleph) [2026]
    • Red Dragon [2026]
    • Recovery (Still) (A Kiss at Dawn) [2026]
    • Dark Corals [2026]
    • Flag (Uno Dos Tres) [2025]
    • Dark Eternity [2025]
    • Eternity [2025]
    • Dragon [2024]
    • Serpientes [2024]
    • Feathered Snakes [2024]
    • Ophis [2024]
    • Snake [2024]
    • The Friend [2024]
    • Dusky Jewel [2024]
    • Dark Gem [2024]
    • Zonnelbloem [2024]
    • O Rose [2024]
    • Girasols [2024]
    • Dark Sunflowers [2024]
    • Dreaming | Printing | Disaster | Purifier (Poetics) [2024]
    • A Throw of Dice Never Will Abolish Chance | All Thought Emits a Throw of Dice [2023]
    • L'Impossible [2023]
    • Mont Blanc [2023]
    • Alt (Pearls Before Swine: Fresh Beauty) [2023]
    • The Raven [2022]
    • Ore Man [2021]
    • Ye Shall Not Evade Circumstance [2021]
    • The Edge [Rubble] [2021]
    • The Edge [Ruedo] [2021]
    • Love (Carnations) [2020]
    • Ornament [2017]
    • Chatterton [2017]
    • A Moveable Feast [2016]
    • Legba [2016]
    • Diptych (Nothing Is Nothing Something Is Something) [2016]
    • Atlantis [2016]
    • Atë (Ruins) [2016]
    • Morning Stars [Spiders] [2016]
    • Morning Stars [Noodles] [2016]
  • Photographs
    • Geswork [Show]
    • But This Place Is Not Where We Are We Are to Meet Them
    • Wild Child (Tetraptych) [2026]
    • Wild Child Full of Grace Savior of the Human Race [2025]
    • Medusa [2022]
    • Slides [2022]
    • End None Rest None [2021]
    • Last Supper [2020]
    • Bone Broth [17X23in] [2020]
    • Stone [2020]
    • Cinnabar (Red Window) [2020]
    • The Second Ring of Power [2019]
    • Ayahuasca [2020]
    • Cartouche (with Mary Hickman) [2019-2023]
    • Graduation [2019]
    • Stoned Immaculate [2018]
    • Triptych (Navidad) [2018]
    • Starslide [2018]
    • Wedding Feast [2018]
    • aka [2017]
    • My Kind of Heroism 1 [2017]
    • Diptych (Black Heart Red Heart) [2017]
    • Pick [2017]
    • Aetos [2017]
    • Último Hombre [2017]
    • Diptych (Gusano) [2017]
    • All I Have Is Yours [2017]
    • Hell [2017]
    • Pray for Me [2016]
    • Triptych (Valentine) [2016]
    • Metanoia [2016]
    • Quatern (Legba) [2016]
    • Bolivar (Gum Arabic) [2016]
    • Coca [2016]
    • Sojourner [2016]
    • Heart Rise [2016]
    • Ref [2016]
    • Diptych (Jai Alai) [2016]
    • Hermes [2016]
    • Clear as Light [2016]
    • Giant Rainbows [2016]
    • Triptych (Danbala) [2016]
    • The Cure of Folly (Extraction of the Stone of Madness) [2016]
    • Eutychus [2016]
    • You're So Confusing [2016] [Photo Only]
    • Nada [2016]
    • Niños (Grail) [2016]
    • Floors [2016]
    • Triptych (Everyone Falls in Love Sometimes) [2016]
    • Yet Nothing Is Impossible, Nothing... [2016]
    • Poetics [2016]
    • Irises (after Van Gogh) [2016]
    • Eels Turned like Wrists [2016] [Photo Only]
    • Make Them Die Mad with Crushes and Beauty [2016]
    • Adam Walsh [2016]
    • Rienbao [2015]
  • Poems
  • Prose, Interviews, Reviews
  • Music
  • Scored Public Domain Works
    • The Skeleton Dance (Dir. Walt Disney, 1929), adapted and scored with The Flying Dutchman, 2024
    • Nosferatu (Dir. F.W. Murnau, 1922), adapted and scored with Leap into the Abyss, 2023
  • About
  • Artist Statement
  • The Chimeras
  • Toba Studios
  • New and Forthcoming
    • Living Poetry: A Memoir
    • Recovery [Poems]
    • The Chimeras [Poems]
    • Bodegόn [Poems]
    • Antigonne [Poems]
    • Untitled (Brains on the Floor | Girls of Fire | Book of Hours) {Poems]
    • Forms [Poems]
    • Niños del Sol [Poems]
    • The Snow Man [&] Summer of Love [Poems]
    • Crowns [Poems]
    • The Living [Poems]
    • Jetsam [Poems] [In Progress]
    • Nocturne: Selected Poems of José Asunción Silva
    • Paintings 2026
    • Paintings 2025
    • Paintings 2024
    • Paintings 2023
    • Paintings 2022
    • Paintings 2021
    • Paintings 2020
    • Caballero
    • Dark Corals
    • Sunflowers
    • Moths, Mariposas, Dragons
    • Torch
    • Culebras
    • Shells
    • After the Flood
    • Sphinx
    • Orpheus
    • Valleys
    • Fans
    • Venus
    • The Infinite
    • Love
    • Beaus
    • Suns
    • Snakes
    • The Edge
    • Antigone
    • Vampires
    • Geswork
    • Dark Corals [2026}
    • Beau [30X144in] [2026]
    • Beau [18X23in] [2026]
    • Dark Coral [51X51in] [2026]
    • Melancholy [42X30in] [2026]
    • Dark Corals (Sketches), 1-15 [5X3in each] [2025]
    • Coral Picasso (Interleaf) [12.5X10.75 & 12X14in] [2025]
    • Poet [2023]
    • Faust [2.6X1.5in] [2023]
    • Torch (Sketches) [2022]
    • Culebras (la Florida) [11X15in] [2022]
    • Spring Break [3X5in] [2022]
    • Sakutarō Waltz [18X24in] [2022]
    • Crucifixion (After Cimabue) [2022]
    • Primeval Glory (Paper) [18X12in] [2022]
    • Venus (Sketches) [5X3in] [2021]
    • Fans (Valleys of Neptune) [2021]
    • Sand $ (Print) [65X40in] [2021]
    • Jirafa [2021]
    • Things Fall Apart [18X12in] [2021]
    • Antigòn [18X24in] [2021]
    • Brujaha [18X24in] [2021]
    • Beau (Dope) [2021] [12.5X10.75in]
    • Dracula [18X24in] [2021]
    • Don Juan [18X24in] [2021]
    • Beach Bums [12X9in] [2021]
    • Hippies [18X24in] [2021]
    • D. [2021]
    • Heartbreak Hotel [4.375X1.375in] [2021]
    • Transition (Manatee ↔ Dracula) [24X18in] [2021]
    • Draculas [24X18in] [2021]
    • The Infinite [Blue] [2020]
    • The Infinite [Purple Yellow] [2020]
    • The Infinite [18X24in] [2020]
    • The Infinite [17X14in] [2020]
    • Children of the Revolution [24X18in] [2021]
    • Ouroboros [24X18in] [2020]
    • Los Rebeldes [2020]
    • Mercury [18X12in] [2020]
    • Culebras [11X15n] [2018-2020]
    • Desert Alchemy [12X18in] [2020]
    • Lorca [9X12in] [2020]
    • Babel [100X45in] [2020]
    • Knights of the Round Table [~8'X18in] [2020]
    • Shut the Window [11X8.5in] [2020]
    • La Familia [12X18in] [2020]
    • Madness [18X12in] [2020]
    • Book of Moths [8X5.5in] [2020]
    • Naga (after Bill Traylor) [18X24in] [2020]
    • Wheatfield with Crows [18X24in] [2020]
    • Shred the Breast [24X18in] [2020]
    • Serpent and Rainbow [24X18in] [2020]
    • Dracula [24X18in] [2020]
    • Hearts [24X18in] [2020]
    • Migration [9X12in] [2019]
    • Love [2020] [12X9in]
    • Cara Mia [12X6in] [6X4in] [2019]
    • Enter Sandman [24X18in] [2019]
    • Sun Ward [18X24in] [2019]
    • Camel [24X18in] [2019]
    • Total War [9X12in] [2019]
    • Sunday [10.75X12.5in] [2019]
    • Easter [12.5X10.75in] [2019]
    • Rienbao [12.5X10.75in] [2019]
    • Sunstead [12.5X10.75in] [2019]
    • War Child [12.5X10.75.in] [2019]
    • Antigon/Ella [ES] [Doubled Sided] [28X13.5in] [2019]
    • Dionysus Christ [24X18in] [2019]
    • Lyre [12.5X10.75in] [2019]
    • Sundaze [12X9in] [2019]
    • Plague [18X24in] [2018]
    • My Foolishness [12X8in] [2018]
    • Sun Is Shining II [2017]
    • Illustrations for "Ballad of the Little Seeds" [2017]
    • Two Diamond Earrings in Robert's Ear [18X24in] [2016]
    • Winter Dream [8.5X11in] [2016]
    • Chump Change [24X18in] [2016]
    • blood / seeps / through / the windows [18X24in] [2020]
    • Wormwood [8.1X6in] [2020]
    • Broken Bottle [9X5.5in] [2020]
    • Coronation [12X9in] [2020]
    • Transfer of Violence [18X24in] [2020]
    • Toro Oro Boro [6X12in] [2019]
    • Rintrah Roars [8.75X5.75in] [2019]
    • Judgement Day [8X5.5in] [2019]
    • Book of the Blue Knight [4.375X1.375in] [2018]
    • Traité de Petit Tactiques [12.5X10.75in] [2017]
    • Scratch 272 [10.5X8in] [2017]
    • Toba [8.5X6in] [2017]
    • Las Difícils [2017]
    • Symposium [5X3 inches] [2017]
    • Grand Grimoire [12.5X10.75in] [2016]
    • Dumbbell [2016] [Photo Only]
    • Pele [2016] [Photo Only]
    • Diablo [2016] [Photo Only]
    • Petit Grimoire [5X4.5in] [2016]
    • It Was Like France [6X4in] [2016]
    • Colombian Gold [2015]
    • Pearls Before Swine [2012]
  • Video
  • Video Paintings
    • Everything in Its Right Place [2023]
    • Andenken [12.5X14in] [2020]
    • Minotaur [2017]
    • Herr Lindworm [2017]
    • De Profundis [2017]
    • The Time of the Assassins [2016]
    • Let the Crushed Bones Rejoice [2016]
    • Like Some Boys [2016]
    • Like Some Boys (Alternates) [2016]
    • Savonarola [2016]
    • Antigone [2016]
    • Faust [2016]
    • Sappho's Busted Smile [2016]
    • Super Bubble (after Mallarmé) [2016]
    • Recoveries (Tapestries) [2023]
    • Rehearsal (Mulholland Drive) [10X8in] [2022]
    • Antonin Artaud Selected Writings Edited, and with an Introduction by Susan Sontag [5X3in] [2022]
    • We're Not Serious When We're Seventeen [2022]
    • Ave Maria [In Progress] [2022]
    • D.A.R.E. (This Was Probably Worn by Some...) [2022]
    • El Otro Lado [7.5X4.75] [2021]
    • Vowels | Light on Ruins | The Yellow House [3.5X5.5in] [2020]
    • Rehearsal (Rodrigo) [10X8in] [2020]
    • Rehearsal (Marie) [10X8in] [2020]
    • Rehearsal (Lilica) [8X10in] [2020]
    • Rehearsal (Hyena) [7.5X5.5in] [2020]
    • Rehearsal (Arthur) [10X8in] [2020]
    • Magic and Reality [10.75X8in] [2020]
    • Byron [2020]
    • Puerto del Sol [2018]
    • Deck (Crushed Bones) [31X8in] [2017]
    • Untitled (Finger Trap) [.75X5.5in] [2016]
    • Neck Braces [41X55in] [2016]
    • Sappho's Lyre [4.5X3in] [2016]
    • Recovered Pearls [2026]
    • The Skeleton Dance [2026]
    • Nosferatu [2026]
    • Caballero 4 [2026]
    • Caballero 3 [2026]
    • Caballero 2 [2026]
    • Caballero 1 [2026]
    • Caballero (Aleph) [2026]
    • Red Dragon [2026]
    • Recovery (Still) (A Kiss at Dawn) [2026]
    • Dark Corals [2026]
    • Flag (Uno Dos Tres) [2025]
    • Dark Eternity [2025]
    • Eternity [2025]
    • Dragon [2024]
    • Serpientes [2024]
    • Feathered Snakes [2024]
    • Ophis [2024]
    • Snake [2024]
    • The Friend [2024]
    • Dusky Jewel [2024]
    • Dark Gem [2024]
    • Zonnelbloem [2024]
    • O Rose [2024]
    • Girasols [2024]
    • Dark Sunflowers [2024]
    • Dreaming | Printing | Disaster | Purifier (Poetics) [2024]
    • A Throw of Dice Never Will Abolish Chance | All Thought Emits a Throw of Dice [2023]
    • L'Impossible [2023]
    • Mont Blanc [2023]
    • Alt (Pearls Before Swine: Fresh Beauty) [2023]
    • The Raven [2022]
    • Ore Man [2021]
    • Ye Shall Not Evade Circumstance [2021]
    • The Edge [Rubble] [2021]
    • The Edge [Ruedo] [2021]
    • Love (Carnations) [2020]
    • Ornament [2017]
    • Chatterton [2017]
    • A Moveable Feast [2016]
    • Legba [2016]
    • Diptych (Nothing Is Nothing Something Is Something) [2016]
    • Atlantis [2016]
    • Atë (Ruins) [2016]
    • Morning Stars [Spiders] [2016]
    • Morning Stars [Noodles] [2016]
    • Geswork [Show]
    • But This Place Is Not Where We Are We Are to Meet Them
    • Wild Child (Tetraptych) [2026]
    • Wild Child Full of Grace Savior of the Human Race [2025]
    • Medusa [2022]
    • Slides [2022]
    • End None Rest None [2021]
    • Last Supper [2020]
    • Bone Broth [17X23in] [2020]
    • Stone [2020]
    • Cinnabar (Red Window) [2020]
    • The Second Ring of Power [2019]
    • Ayahuasca [2020]
    • Cartouche (with Mary Hickman) [2019-2023]
    • Graduation [2019]
    • Stoned Immaculate [2018]
    • Triptych (Navidad) [2018]
    • Starslide [2018]
    • Wedding Feast [2018]
    • aka [2017]
    • My Kind of Heroism 1 [2017]
    • Diptych (Black Heart Red Heart) [2017]
    • Pick [2017]
    • Aetos [2017]
    • Último Hombre [2017]
    • Diptych (Gusano) [2017]
    • All I Have Is Yours [2017]
    • Hell [2017]
    • Pray for Me [2016]
    • Triptych (Valentine) [2016]
    • Metanoia [2016]
    • Quatern (Legba) [2016]
    • Bolivar (Gum Arabic) [2016]
    • Coca [2016]
    • Sojourner [2016]
    • Heart Rise [2016]
    • Ref [2016]
    • Diptych (Jai Alai) [2016]
    • Hermes [2016]
    • Clear as Light [2016]
    • Giant Rainbows [2016]
    • Triptych (Danbala) [2016]
    • The Cure of Folly (Extraction of the Stone of Madness) [2016]
    • Eutychus [2016]
    • You're So Confusing [2016] [Photo Only]
    • Nada [2016]
    • Niños (Grail) [2016]
    • Floors [2016]
    • Triptych (Everyone Falls in Love Sometimes) [2016]
    • Yet Nothing Is Impossible, Nothing... [2016]
    • Poetics [2016]
    • Irises (after Van Gogh) [2016]
    • Eels Turned like Wrists [2016] [Photo Only]
    • Make Them Die Mad with Crushes and Beauty [2016]
    • Adam Walsh [2016]
    • Rienbao [2015]
  • Poems
  • Prose, Interviews, Reviews
  • Music
    • The Skeleton Dance (Dir. Walt Disney, 1929), adapted and scored with The Flying Dutchman, 2024
    • Nosferatu (Dir. F.W. Murnau, 1922), adapted and scored with Leap into the Abyss, 2023
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View fullsize Recovery (Pearl [Alt Color]) (Rimbaud)
Recovery (Pearl [Alt Color]) (Rimbaud)
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Recovery (Pearl [Alt Color]) (Albert Ramsay)
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Recovery (Pearl) (Alt Text: Fernandez)