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.

Abstract painting Sea Change by Ritu Raj: a combed blue field sweeping down from the upper left like weather over deep water, darkening toward navy at the upper right, with viridian and sea green diffused along the lower edge.

There is no center in this painting. A green world falling vertically, light arriving filtered, the whole surface the subject and nowhere in particular to land. Painted over a black and white canvas from 2024, whose comb still runs underneath.