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Biosphere (2022) is a large-scale meditation on enclosed systems — physical, emotional, and planetary. Part of the Geometric Splendor Collection, this 90 x 90 inch acrylic painting reflects on the idea of containment: how we live, breathe, and evolve inside interdependent spaces.

The composition is dominated by circular and polygonal forms, nested and layered. The palette is earthy with futuristic undertones — sand, teal, steel blue, and moss green — evoking both organic growth and technological structure. The geometry pulses inward and outward, like breath or an expanding lung.

The concept was inspired by real-world biospheres — controlled environments designed to simulate Earth’s ecosystems. But it quickly became more metaphorical. In this painting, the biosphere becomes a symbol: for intimacy, for isolation, for coexistence within fragile boundaries.

This work shares conceptual space with Olafur Eliasson, especially his experiments with geometry, perception, and ecology. Like Eliasson, I am interested in how abstract form can point to real, urgent questions about interconnection and sustainability.

The painting is not didactic. It doesn’t warn. It observes. It holds. There’s no chaos — only order being tested. It asks: what holds us together? What happens when the system reaches its limit?

Biosphere invites the viewer to imagine themselves inside the painting — not as an observer, but as part of the mechanism. A component of something delicate, beautiful, and alive.

As part of the Geometric Splendor Collection, this piece adds a planetary dimension to the series — where abstraction becomes not just aesthetic, but ecological.

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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