Ricardo Romero Cortez Duque

Nine Windows / 30×48” / acrylic on canvas

The story unfolds as a wall of quiet openings, each one revealing a different version of the same moment. Nine rounded windows float against a calm, gray field, their borders clean and deliberate, as if carefully cut to let something through without letting everything spill out.

Inside each window, color moves vertically—bands of blue, green, orange, and red slipping past one another like days stacked in memory. Some feel warm and immediate, others cool and reflective. No two are identical, yet none feel out of place. They are variations, not contradictions.

Nine Windows tells a story about perspective. It suggests that experience is never singular—that what we see depends on where we stand, when we look, and what we’re ready to notice. The painting invites the viewer to pause and look through each opening, not to choose the “right” one, but to recognize that all of them are true at once.