Patchwork Sky: Mapping Color in Motion
Medium: Acrylic On Canvas
Size: 6ft x 5ft
Creation Date: 2025
Collection: Geometric Splendor
Patchwork Sky is a large-scale work from the Geometric Splendor collection, measuring 72 x 60 inches in acrylic on canvas. In this piece, precise geometry and expressive abstraction come together in a vivid constellation of color and rhythm.
Across a richly layered blue background, squares of saturated pigment — from crimson to ochre, violet to pale green — seem to float and flicker like a coded sky. A curving, dark geometric form rises in the foreground, grounding the composition while also inviting ambiguity. Is it a silhouette, a shadow, or something structural breaking through?
Painted white dashes and lines disrupt the grid, introducing movement, direction, and a sense of underlying pulse. These gestures break the static pattern and suggest a kind of path — one that’s not fixed, but improvised.
This work pays homage to the structural clarity of Paul Klee and Sarah Morris, while also embracing the improvisational attitude of street mapping, memory, and shifting perception. It’s a study in how color fields can behave like language — arranged, disrupted, reassembled.
“In Patchwork Sky, I was thinking about how we navigate uncertainty. The grid gives us a system, but it’s the interruptions—the dashes, the asymmetry—that feel most alive.” — Ritu Raj
Patchwork Sky is both playful and precise, and like all works in this collection, entirely hand-painted — with no digital elements or reproductions. It invites viewers to linger, decode, and get lost in its shifting surface.
