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Medium:Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 9ft x 7ft
Creation Date:2022
Collection:Ephemeral Atmosphere
Theme: Soft, transient, hazy, atmospheric, cloudlike, smoky, or weather-like abstraction.
Palette: Teal · Burnt Orange · Deep Violet · Smoky Grey · Maroon · Luminous Cream

My Planet (2023) is a declaration — not of ownership, but of intimacy. At 108 x 84 inches, it’s one of the largest works in the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, and it unfolds like a personal cosmos. This isn’t a painting of Earth, or Mars, or anything literal. It’s a painting of the world within — radiant, chaotic, orbiting its own logic.

The composition is expansive yet contained, with orbs, elliptical fields, and drifting layers of color floating across a luminous background. Hues of teal, orange, violet, and smoky gray coexist without hierarchy. They drift. They gravitate. The surface pulses like a solar system of moods.

I painted this as an act of claiming space — both external and emotional. It’s a planet of memory, of feeling, of perception. Everything you see is a trace of something felt deeply, but never spoken.

The work finds conceptual affinity with Julie Mehretu, particularly in the way abstraction becomes a map — not of cities or histories, but of internal landscapes. Like Mehretu, I’m interested in how movement, layering, and atmosphere can suggest the geography of selfhood.

My Planet doesn’t rotate around a sun. It radiates from within. And in that glow is a gentle power — a reminder that our inner worlds are vast, dynamic, and worthy of exploration.

As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this painting is an invitation to dwell in your own gravity — to feel your way across your own atmosphere.

Ritu Raj | Contemporary Abstract Painter | Phoenix

Ritu Raj is a contemporary abstract painter based in Phoenix, Arizona. His signature technique, Organic Movement, replaces the brush with thread — tracing the exact tension between control and surrender that holds a painting in motion. He has created over 200 original works collected across the US, Europe, and Asia, and is the author of the forthcoming The Shape of Seeing and The Unalgorithmic Self.

https://www.rituart.com/
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