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Waves (2023) is a rhythm made visible — a painting that doesn’t depict water, but channels its motion, memory, and emotional undercurrents. Created in acrylic on wood, this 72 x 72 inch work from the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection is both a pulse and a poem.

Brushstrokes rise and fall across the surface in loose, undulating arcs — some soft and foamy, others jagged and urgent. The palette glows with sea-toned blues, hints of aqua, and flashes of sun-warmed coral. Between the gestures, negative space sways gently, creating an effect of movement even in stillness.

I painted Waves while reflecting on how we move through change — how emotions roll through us like tides. It’s not about water. It’s about repetition and surrender. Each mark is a moment. Each line, a breath.

The piece resonates with the meditative fluidity of Yayoi Kusama, particularly her infinite nets and organic repetitions. Like Kusama, I see pattern not as design but as devotion — a way to process the endless push and pull of being alive.

Waves doesn’t crash. It flows. It carries. It reminds us that we are always riding something — an emotion, a thought, a phase. Sometimes gently. Sometimes not.

As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this painting celebrates rhythm not as structure, but as experience. A wave doesn’t explain. It moves. And Waves lets you move with it.

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 also the author of ArtGraph, a language for abstract art: six dimensions that read the painting, three that read the encounter, a notation, and a catalog scored against all of them. The paintings are at rituart.com. The language is at artgra.ph.

The Shape of Seeing and The Unalgorithmic Self are forthcoming.

Art that listens.

https://www.rituart.com/
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