Ricardo Romero Cortez Duque

The Place We Almost Remembered / 36×60” / acrylic + canvas

In this painting, the horizon is both an invitation and a question. The land rolls forward in soft bands of green and pale gold, but it’s the sky — wide, layered, and shifting — that carries the weight of the story. Clouds drift in uncertain rhythms, layered with light that doesn’t announce itself, but lingers quietly, like a memory just out of reach.

There is a sense here of something once held, now slipping between thought and form — a recollection of light or feeling that feels familiar, but never fully arrives. The distant line where earth meets sky seems to pulse with possibility: what was seen here before? What might be seen again? The scene doesn’t demand resolution, only presence.

The Place We Almost Remembered tells a story about the threshold between remembrance and forgetting — about how landscapes can feel like ideas, and how memory can be anchored not in what we hold, but in what continues to elude us. It invites the viewer to linger in that space, where subtle shifts in light and color become the language of quiet longing and gentle wonder.