I paint what can't be said. Abstract artist · Organic Movement · Phoenix. The unalgorithmic mind at work. rituart.com
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I just published Five Questions for a Painter Who Doesn’t Want to Answer Them medium.com/p/five-questions-…
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Abstract painting doesn't eliminate meaning.
It returns it to you in its unprocessed state.
Before the agreements organized it into something recognizable.
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Layered Communication
Ephemeral Atmospheres · Acrylic on canvas · 48 × 48 in · 2021
Language fails. So I built something with twelve layers of paint instead.
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Abstract painting has always demanded a phenomenology of encounter rather than a semiotics of representation.
We have never built one.
My answer to @jerrysaltz's blank point twenty → rituart.com/blog/point-twent…
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There are four bodies in this painting. Two are still moving.
Science calls it collision. The painting calls it song.
Proton Song · Acrylic on Canvas · 60×60 in · 2026 rituart.com
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"I don't paint what I know. I paint to know."
5 things about the practice, the companies left behind, and why the brush had to go.
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I just published Can You Count What You Can’t Explain? medium.com/p/can-you-count-w…
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Most people spend 11 seconds in front of a painting and wonder why abstract art doesn't speak to them.
The painting isn't withholding. You just haven't stayed long enough.
On how to actually see abstract art in a gallery → rituart.com/blog/how-to-unde…
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I painted over a finished oil painting.
The red arrived. The canvas pushed back.
Fractal gaps opened where acrylic met oil — unrepeatable, unplanned. The ground surfaced through the red.
I stopped when the painting told me to.
Emergent Ground in Red — 2026.
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Geometry without contrast is just pattern. It decorates rather than decides.
Took me three states of the same canvas to learn that.
The underpainting is still there. You can feel it.
Third Life → rituart.com/blog/third-life
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My latest painting - Structural Emergence
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Called it Abstract Inquiry before I understood what the name meant.
Thought I was describing a style. I was describing a posture.
The painter who enters the studio with an open question, and stays honest with it — produces something that cannot be made any other way.
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You do not understand a lineage by inheriting it. You understand it by arguing with it.
Final essay in my Why This Series — on Rothko, Pollock, Richter, Basquiat, Kline, Twombly, and why I was the one writing it.
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The usher I no longer believe I make paintings. I believe I become the conditions under which they arrive. rituart.com/blog/the-medium-…
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