Ricardo Romero Cortez Duque

Where the Tide Learns to Breathe / Acrylic + Resin + Canvas / 48×48

This painting tells the story of a meeting that is neither collision nor surrender, but a long, patient negotiation. On the left, a vast blue deepens into near-black—an ocean of memory, weight, and accumulated experience. It carries the gravity of what has already been lived, the unspoken depth of emotion that does not ask to be explained. On the right, light gathers softly, like air or sky, pale and forgiving, suggesting openness, possibility, and the promise of rest.

Between them runs a restless, foaming edge—the boundary where the two worlds touch. This is the moment of change: where certainty loosens, where darkness thins into breath, where the sea begins to exhale. The line is imperfect and alive, full of motion, as if the painting itself is listening for what comes next.

Where the Tide Learns to Breathe is a story about transition—about standing at the threshold between holding on and letting go. It captures the instant when something heavy meets something gentle, and neither is erased. Instead, they shape each other. The painting invites the viewer to linger in that narrow, luminous space where transformation happens quietly, wave by wave, breath by breath.