Ricardo Romero Cortez Duque

The Field That Learned to Dream / 36×36 / acrylic + canvas

This painting tells the story of a quiet landscape poised between reality and imagination. The field stretches out in gentle greens and soft earth tones, but it’s the sky — broad, expressive, and luminous — that holds the narrative. Clouds drift across in shapes that feel like thoughts forming in mid-air, each shift suggesting a different story just beyond reach.

The distant horizon, barely visible, hints at lands the eye has never touched, while closer grasses seem to whisper of places already known. There’s no urgency here — just a slow unfolding, as if the world is revealing itself one quiet moment at a time.

The Field That Learned to Dream is about the space between seeing and understanding, and the way a simple scene can carry more feeling than words. It invites the viewer to linger, to notice the subtle movements of light and color, and to discover their own story in what appears both familiar and mysteriously new.