Tangled Pulse of a Shattered World: A Monument to Disruption, Resilience, and Rebirth
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: Diptych 4.5ft x 9ft
Creation Date: 2025
Collection: Organic Movement
What happens when a world breaks?
In Tangled Pulse of a Shattered World, the rupture doesn’t mean silence—it means vibration. This expansive diptych, spanning 9 feet across, brings the viewer face-to-face with a moment of fragmentation rendered in emotional color fields and gliding thread gestures. With acrylic paint kept wet using heavy doses of retarder, the thread dances—dragging pigment into layers of tension, collision, and unlikely harmony.
The palette is explosive yet deeply intentional: electric reds and cobalt blues clash and coalesce, broken only by bursts of yellow, violet, and turquoise. The diptych format allows for breathing space—a pause mid-chaos, or perhaps a bridge between one pulse and the next. Patterns emerge and dissolve, much like the emotional aftershocks of upheaval—whether personal or collective.
This is not a painting about despair, but about motion through it. Tangled Pulse captures the aftermath of disruption with rawness and clarity. It is expressive but not indulgent—an architectural build of sensation, fragmented but not lost.
“It’s as if the canvas itself has a heartbeat,” a curator remarked during preview. “The layering feels like grief turning into music.”
This piece exemplifies the scale and ambition of Ritu Raj’s evolving Organic Movement. Thread, in this context, doesn’t just move paint—it binds experience. It rewires perception. It suggests that even in collapse, rhythm continues.
Collectors, designers, and cultural institutions looking for large-format works that carry both philosophical gravity and visual impact will find Tangled Pulse of a Shattered World an unforgettable focal point.
To view or acquire:
Jarrow & Goodman Gallery (LA)
