Ricardo Romero Cortez Duque

The Distance Between Us and Weather / Acrylic + Canvas / 36 × 60

This painting tells the story of a moment caught between movement and stillness, a sky that can’t decide whether to let its weight fall or lift away. Wide bands of blue and gray stretch horizontally, layered with water-like texture that feels both steady and unsettled—like a breath held too long, waiting to be released.

The viewer senses not a place, but a mood: the quiet anticipation of weather that is neither here nor gone, and the subtle tension between what’s known and what’s coming. There are no figures, no landmarks—only the vast sweep of color and form that evokes the way we feel on days when the horizon seems to carry more meaning than the foreground.

The Distance Between Us and Weather is a story about inner landscapes as much as outer ones. It reflects how emotions can be as broad, layered, and unresolved as the sky, and how sometimes the most powerful scenes are those that mirror what we feel but cannot fully name.