My World: Floating in Ambiguity

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Medium:Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 6ft x 5ft
Creation Date:2020
Collection:Ephemeral Atmosphere
Theme: Soft, transient, hazy, atmospheric, cloudlike, smoky, or weather-like abstraction.
Palette: Translucent Grey · Drifting Blue · Soft Pink Memory · Overlapping Wash · Floating Gold

My World (2020), from the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, is an exploration of personal space as a shifting, layered, and elusive landscape. This 72 x 60 inch acrylic on canvas features translucent layers of grays, blues, and soft pinks, creating a world both fragile and vast.

Forms float without clear borders, drifting into each other like overlapping memories or dreams. The painting resists resolution, leaving the viewer suspended in a space of ambiguity.

In this way, My World connects to the works of Julie Mehretu, whose layered abstractions map fractured, imagined geographies. Like Mehretu, I am interested in how spaces can hold multiple, conflicting narratives, how abstraction can evoke both place and feeling simultaneously.

My World is not a map of territory, but a map of emotion — a space where the viewer is invited to float, to drift, and to imagine.

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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