Ricardo Romero Cortez Duque

The Ocean Kept the Secret / 36 x 36 / acrylic on canvas

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The story begins far from shore, where there are no markers left to argue with. The water stretches outward in deep, shifting blues, layered with movement that never quite repeats itself. Each brush of light across the surface feels like a sentence begun and then swallowed again.

Above the horizon, the sky softens, pale and restrained, as if listening more than speaking. There is no storm here, no drama—only the steady insistence of motion, the kind that happens whether or not anyone is watching. Whatever was given to the ocean was accepted without judgment and carried forward, dispersed into endless variation.

The Ocean Kept the Secret is a story about trust and release. It speaks to the quiet relief of letting something go where it cannot be retrieved, knowing it will be held—not in memory, but in movement.