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

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.