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“Vision in Space' drifts between vision and memory, holding the space where perception meets emotion.”

Vision in Space (2024) is a quiet cosmos — a painting that floats between imagination, perception, and the vast unknown. Created with oil on a 60 x 60 inch canvas, this work from the Greyscale Collection conjures deep space not as astronomy, but as consciousness.

The surface shimmers with layered blacks, soft violets, and dusted greys. A glowing circular form hovers left of center — not quite a planet, not quite an eye. Around it, faint concentric rings and flickering points suggest orbits, systems, or thoughts.

I painted Vision in Space while meditating on the idea of inner vision — the kind that doesn’t use eyes. It’s a painting of floating clarity, of stillness amid the infinite.

This work aligns with the spatial mystery of Vija Celmins and the atmospheric sensitivity of Mark Rothko, though my space holds more form. There’s gravity here — but also weightlessness.

Vision in Space invites pause. It doesn’t explain. It opens.

Ritu Raj | Contemporary Abstract Painter | Phoenix

Ritu Raj is a contemporary abstract painter based in Phoenix, Arizona, working mostly at scale — canvases of five to eight feet. His practice runs in two bodies: Abstract Inquiry, in oil and acrylic, and Organic Movement, which replaces the brush with thread, using gravity and viscosity as compositional instruments. More than 260 works, collected across the US, Europe and Asia. He is the author of the forthcoming The Shape of Seeing and The Unalgorithmic Self.

https://www.rituart.com/
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