Abstract painting with clusters of stylized eyes in vivid colors, evoking perception, rhythm, and layered awareness by Ritu Raj

Abstract Eyes

Medium: Mixed Media on Wood
Size: 3ft x 4ft
Creation Date: 2025
Collection: Pop Art

Abstract Eyes (2025) is multiplicity made visual — a painting that fragments vision into rhythm, energy, and emotion. This 36 x 48 inch mixed media on wood work, part of the Pop Art Collection, explodes the gaze into repetition, asking what it means to see and be seen in many directions at once.

Dozens of elliptical eye forms float and cluster across the surface. Each is unique: some sharply outlined, others dissolving into color. Their hues range from neon coral to electric indigo, punctuated with metallic glints and surface texture. Some eyes stare. Some blink. Some vanish into haze.

I painted Abstract Eyes after Abstract Eye — as a kind of echo and expansion. One gaze became many. I was thinking about surveillance, awareness, and how seeing is never singular. Every eye implies another. Every perspective is part of a larger field.

The painting recalls the visual dynamism of Yayoi Kusama, whose repetitive forms become both obsessive and transcendental. Like Kusama, I use repetition not as redundancy, but as revelation.

Abstract Eyes invites overwhelm — but also fascination. It asks: What do you see when you’re seen from every angle?

As part of the Pop Art Collection, this piece rides the line between play and philosophy — a chorus of eyes that’s both whimsical and watchful.