A luminous yet somber work, José Maria Sicilia's *La Luz que se apaga* (2002) employs oil and beeswax on panel to evoke the slow, tender dissolution of light. The translucent, layered quality of the beeswax lends the surface a warm, organic depth, as if the painting itself breathes and fades simultaneously. Housed in the artist's own frame, the work becomes a complete, intimate object — a meditation on transience and the fragile threshold between presence and disappearance.