Ricardo Romero Cortez Duque

The Tide Remembered Your Name / 36×36” / acrylic on canvas

** SOLD **

The story unfolds at a moment when the sea is neither welcoming nor refusing. The water lies heavy with layered blues and muted greens, moving in slow, deliberate gestures as if recalling something it once held close. Flecks of warm color surface briefly, like fragments of memory rising and sinking again before they can be claimed.

Above the horizon, the sky darkens and softens at the same time—clouds drifting in broad, unfinished shapes, carrying the weight of words that were never spoken aloud. The line where sky meets water feels distant but certain, a boundary that has endured countless departures without keeping count.

The Tide Remembered Your Name is a story about presence after absence. It speaks to the quiet comfort of knowing that even when you leave, something of you remains—absorbed into motion, carried forward, and returned not as proof, but as feeling.