Every colour in the catalogue at once, and none of them touching. The pale seams running between the blocks were not drawn on top — they are the ground showing through where two blocks stopped short of one another.

Jheel is a contemporary abstract painting by Ritu Raj — one blue with no edge anywhere in it, dissolving into light on the left and into near-black on the right. Oil on canvas, 2026.

Odhni is a contemporary abstract painting by Ritu Raj — four feet of one red laid over a 2021 canvas, with a dark upright standing through it. Oil on canvas, 2026.

The pause after motion — ridges cut for another painting, now running across water instead of down it.

Rajasthani women dancing, and the skirts doing what skirts are built to do — throwing colour outward while the body at the centre stays perfectly still.

Shiva's blue throat — the colour that comes from holding something and not letting it go.