Ricardo Romero Cortez Duque

Quiet Before Every Tomorrow / 36×48” / acrylic + board

This painting tells the story of a moment on the brink — a moment that feels like both ending and beginning. Soft bands of muted blue and gray meet in a gentle horizon, as if sea and sky have paused mid-conversation. Light breaks through in pale warmth, glimmering against the surface like memory breaking through uncertainty.

The scene carries a quiet tension: it is not storm, yet it is not stillness; it is held in that tender space where change is neither feared nor rushed, only acknowledged. The water seems to breathe, the light seems to watch, and the horizon holds its breath as though waiting for something known only to itself.

The Quiet Before Every Tomorrow is a story about anticipation — not frantic or anxious, but patient and reflective. It invites the viewer to linger in this in-between place where possibility feels near enough to touch, and where hope glimmers not as a promise, but as a presence felt deep inside.