Abstract painting Sindoor Field by Ritu Raj: a saturated red field at six feet square, pooled light and dark across deep trowel-combed ridges that snake over the whole canvas, cooling toward oxblood at the right edge.

One body in this painting refuses to hold still. The blue moves through a field that outnumbers it — jointed, insistent, declining to be absorbed — until you stay long enough to hear it was a passage all along.