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Resilience is an easy word to misuse in wall-art contexts — it tends to mean something inspirational and vague. What Czimber paints here is more specific: the look of someone who has absorbed something difficult and decided to continue. There's a difference between that and triumph, and he knows it. The portrait was made during the thing it depicts — not in retrospect, not as a testament — which gives it a quality no commemorative painting can replicate. Evidence made in real time, while the test was still running.