Title: Pick-up-sticks

I rekindled my interest in stamps recently, and was at the post office when I saw a flyer for a set of Peranakan (Straits Chinese) stamps.

Somehow or other in my mind (which makes connections sometimes) I thought of a game I loved playing when I was a child. A game where you threw down a set of thin sticks, and then tried to pick them up each one without moving any of the others.

So, I cut strips from that flyer, and then overlapped them like the sticks from my childhood.

I roughly tore them to create a more rustic, traditional feel. The last touch was lime green acrylic paint to accent the piece.