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Her works speak to all cultures

"Watching the Clouds" oil on canvas, 30" x 40"

Artists seem to share a unique quality in seeing the world as one instead of categorizing people into hundreds of different languages, cultures and appearances. Elisse Pogofsky-Harris is one such artist that is fascinated by the sameness in religions, angels, Immaculate Conception and other areas of the world that thousands of people share. Through still life and landscapes that present the beginning of a story, the viewer is left to complete the journey as seen in their own mind. It doesn’t matter what your nationality is because Elisse’s work speaks to them all.

Pogofsky-Harris was but a five-year-old child when her artistic senses entered her small mind with a trip to California, where nature filled her mind with mountains and surrounding mists and clouds that was picture perfect. At age ten, she took this vivid scene and started to paint and has never stopped. Later, Florence, Italy presented to Elisse the opportunity to drink up the culture, the food, the architecture and the Italian art, seeing similarities in the people and their beliefs, just like us.

When you look at her work, you almost feel a hand come across your shoulder that says, “It’s okay to go there.” Our thoughts and blinders attached by society have so engrained in us a sense of fear in choosing our own way and seeing through our own eyes that embracing a scene and running with it seems almost a sin. Pogofsky-Harris brings the comfort to dare and dream, take an unknown path and create your own finish.