This is the third of a series of tree studies directly inspired by the 1671 Chinese manual of painting, the Chieh Tzu Yuan Chuan. A tree growing out the side of a cliff suggests to me: grow where you're planted. From the manual-- When trees are clinging to steep cliffs, the roots of old trees are exposed. They are like hermits, the Immortals of legends, withdrawn from the world, whose purity shows in their appearance, lean and gnarled with age, their bones and tendons protruding. Such trees are marvelous. This drawing is in archival ink on 140# acid-free paper. The dimensions with border are 13.8 x 10.6". The drawing is unframed.