The Edge of Stillness, 2026
Acrylic on canvas
100 × 65 cm. ( 39.37 × 25.59 inches )
Series: The Leopard´s Journey
Signed and dated 2026 verso
Copyright María Cortés
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At the edge of a quiet pool, a leopard sits suspended between presence and instinct. The scene unfolds in a constructed landscape—ordered, geometric, and serene—yet the animal remains a quiet...
At the edge of a quiet pool, a leopard sits suspended between presence and instinct.
The scene unfolds in a constructed landscape—ordered, geometric, and serene—yet the animal remains a quiet disruption within it.
Bands of colour stretch across the horizon, dissolving time and place into something both real and imagined. The water, still but alive with subtle movement, becomes a threshold: a space of reflection, tension, and possibility.
Here, control and wildness coexist without conflict. The leopard does not move, yet it holds the entire scene in a state of alert stillness.
A moment before something happens—or perhaps after.