Ricardo Romero Cortez Duque

The Quiet Between Departures / 36×48” / acrylic on canvas

The story unfolds in the space left behind after something has gone. The sea stretches wide in softened blues and sea-glass greens, its surface marked by slow, overlapping gestures that suggest movement without urgency. Light skims the water in brief, broken lines, like memories that surface and fade before they can settle.

At the horizon, a pale band of brightness separates water from sky, a thin promise that something continues beyond what can be seen. Above it, the clouds drift in muted layers, carrying the weight of change without spectacle. Nothing here announces itself; everything simply remains.

The Quiet Between Departures tells a story about pause rather than absence. It captures the moment when leaving has already happened, but arrival has not yet begun—a stretch of time where reflection takes precedence over motion, and the world feels briefly, mercifully still.