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Medium:Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 6ft x 6ft
Creation Date:2023
Collection:Ephemeral Atmosphere
Theme: Soft, transient, hazy, atmospheric, cloudlike, smoky, or weather-like abstraction.
Palette: Flame Red · Burnt Orange · Hot Pink · Deep Burgundy · Scorched Black · Warm White

Passion Unleashed (2023) is an eruption — a declaration of presence and power through pure pigment and motion. This 72 x 72 inch acrylic painting from the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection is a testament to emotion at its most raw and embodied.

The canvas explodes with reds, oranges, and pinks, clashing and coalescing like flame and heartbeat. Streaks of black and deep burgundy cut through the surface like breathless interruptions. No area sits still — every inch is alive, shifting, vibrating with layered brushwork and gestural force.

I painted Passion Unleashed in one unbroken session, not from concept, but from feeling. It’s not an image of passion — it is passion. The kind that rises without permission and demands space. There’s no restraint here, only surrender.

The work connects with the expressive violence of Kazuo Shiraga, who used the body itself — feet, momentum, weight — to create his visceral surfaces. Like Shiraga, I believe passion is best recorded not in symbol, but in action.

Passion Unleashed doesn’t ask to be understood. It asks to be felt in the body — to stir something primal, urgent, full of risk and heat.

As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this piece captures the moment emotion escapes language and becomes form. It is not quiet. It is not safe. It is gloriously alive.

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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