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Medium:Oil on Canvas
Size: 5ft x 5ft
Creation Date:2024
Collection:Greyscale
Theme: Black-and-white, grayscale, monochrome, stark contrast, minimal forms, and restrained palettes.
Palette: Layered Black · Soft Violet · Dusted Grey · Luminous White · Deep Space Blue

“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. 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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