Mountain Rise by Eyvind Earle

A jagged peak juts from the horizon. Earle’s *Mountain Rise* distills the scene to essentials: rock, sky, and stillness. Slabs of slate-gray rise in sharp diagonals, their edges softened by thin, horizontal strokes of pale lavender. The sky is a gradient of cool blues, deepening toward the top without a single cloud. A single, slender tree clings to the left slope, its branches reduced to geometric lines. Hang it where morning light can slide across the paper—above a low credenza or beside a narrow hallway mirror.