Square Earth by Ritu Raj

Ritu Raj

Square Earth, 2022

Mixed Media

90 x 90 in

Signature: Signed and dated on the back

Square Earth is a 7.5-foot meditation on belief, geometry, and the audacity of an impossible shape. Part of the Geometric Splendor Collection, this mixed media work layers ochre, rust, moss, and charcoal into rectilinear patterns that crack and breathe — structure built to erode. The title riffs on flat-earth mythology, not with mockery, but with genuine philosophical curiosity: what if we treated belief as geometry? The square becomes a planet. The grid becomes terrain. Where precision ends, decay begins — tectonics, weather, time. Square Earth doesn't argue with your assumptions about shape or world. It simply destabilizes them, quietly, and invites you to find solid ground inside the rupture.