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My Abstract Brain (2021) is a self-portrait without a face — a visual rendering of thought, emotion, and fragmentation as experienced from the inside out. Part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this 48 x 48 inch acrylic painting reflects the layered, nonlinear texture of perception itself.

The composition swirls and scatters, with pockets of density and sudden silence. Vivid color fields — electric yellow, soft lavender, deep navy — compete and converse, held loosely together by marks that feel impulsive but intentional. The canvas becomes a cognitive map: confusion, clarity, collision, connection.

This work is personal. It was painted in a moment of intense internal motion — where creativity, anxiety, insight, and memory overlapped like translucent veils. I didn’t paint an image. I traced a pulse. A blur of sensations.

In energy and improvisation, this piece echoes the work of Joan Mitchell, whose gestural abstractions often feel like raw mental landscapes. But where Mitchell embraced chaos, My Abstract Brain leans into rhythm — finding cohesion not in control, but in flow.

There are no answers here. No center. Just a field of feeling, flickering with ideas, doubts, and dreams. It’s not always legible. But it’s deeply alive.

As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, My Abstract Brain captures a fleeting state — a window into the mind when it forgets it’s being watched. A portrait of thinking as becoming.

Ritu Raj | Contemporary Abstract Painter | Phoenix

Ritu Raj is a contemporary abstract painter based in Phoenix, Arizona, working mostly at scale — canvases of five to eight feet. His practice runs in two bodies: Abstract Inquiry, in oil and acrylic, and Organic Movement, which replaces the brush with thread, using gravity and viscosity as compositional instruments. More than 260 works, collected across the US, Europe and Asia. He is the author of the forthcoming The Shape of Seeing and The Unalgorithmic Self.

https://www.rituart.com/
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