11/28/2025
"Endurance and Resilience"
A vertical composition created by local La Jolla artist Russ Harris depicts a sheer, icy dark cliff rising from a mist-filled void, with snow-covered ledges and a few dark pines along the rim, their silhouettes softened by distant fog. A small, windswept tree with rusty-red foliage clings to a lower outcrop, providing a vivid warm contrast against the cool blues and whites, while cracks in the rock emphasize its height and brittle texture. The restrained palette and brushwork evoke East Asian landscape painting, with symbolic elements like the red tree and stoic pines representing endurance and resilience, and the mist and perspective suggesting introspection and harmony with nature. - https://russ-harris.pixels.com/featured/endurance-and-resilience-russ-harris.html