Ricardo Romero Cortez Duque

The Long Argument Between Water and Light / Acrylic + Resin + Canvas / 48×48

This painting tells the story of a conversation that has been going on long before anyone learned how to listen. On the left, the blue is vast and resolute—an ocean of conviction, depth, and silence. It is the place of gravity, where truths sink and remain, where feelings are carried rather than spoken. On the right, pale light gathers like breath or cloud, fragile yet persistent, pressing gently into the darkness.

The boundary between them is uneven and alive, curling and breaking as if the sea itself were trying to speak. This edge is the argument—not violent, but relentless. Water advances, light answers. Neither fully wins, and neither retreats. Instead, they shape each other, creating moments of turbulence that shimmer briefly before dissolving back into calm.

The Long Argument Between Water and Light is a story about coexistence: about how opposing forces learn to remain in the same frame. It speaks to inner conflict and reconciliation, to the way clarity often arrives not as a clean line but as a softened edge. The painting invites the viewer to stand in that liminal space, where darkness is not erased by light, and light is made more meaningful by what it touches.