Ricardo Romero Cortez Duque

Fireworks / 5′ x 6′ / acrylic + canvas

This painting tells the story of a single, unrepeatable moment—the instant after everything erupted. Reds and blacks churn like the heat of memory, while flashes of white and gold burst through the darkness, not gently, but insistently, as if light had to fight its way into being.

The surface feels scorched and luminous at once. Layers collide, smear, and fracture, suggesting emotions that arrived all at once: anger, release, awe, relief. There is no clean horizon here, no stable ground—only the aftermath of something powerful that could not remain contained.

Fireworks is about transformation through intensity. It captures the moment when chaos becomes necessary, when burning through the old is the only way forward. The story it tells is not of destruction alone, but of illumination—the realization that even in the wreckage, something brighter has begun.