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The rectangle arrived first. Emerald over midnight blue — architectural, still, almost stubborn in its insistence on staying. I let it hold the center while everything else moved around it.
Emerald Pulse is an Organic Movement painting, which means the thread did what the brush would have contained. Violet, crimson, and white swept out from the geometry in arcs that followed viscosity and tension rather than intention — the thread tracing paths I hadn't decided on. The result is a painting with two tempos: the slow, grounded presence of the rectangle, and the restless energy that refuses to settle around it.
The green holds. The field moves. The painting lives in the friction between them.
Mondrian understood that geometry could carry feeling without losing its structure. Pollock understood that gesture could carry structure without losing its freedom. Emerald Pulse works in the space between those two understandings — ordered at its core, wild at its edges, neither one winning.
From the painter
Two books by Ritu Raj
An abstract painter can't paint from eight to five. In the hours away from the canvas, the paintings began to ask for words. These are the books that came from that.
The painting on this page, Orbit of Blue, is the cover of The Shape of Seeing.
The Shape of Seeing
The Genesis of Abstraction
Short essays on time, geometry, shadow and breath, and on what happens between a person and an abstract canvas.
Hardcover · Paperback · Kindle
The Unalgorithmic Self
Art, AI, and the Future of Human Thinking
A machine can answer a question. Only a human can wonder. A book about remembering ourselves in an age of intelligent machines.
Hardcover · Paperback · Kindle
