Tijs Dragtsma (1992) - A Ring Scratched Into Green

At first glance it could be a sun, or an eye looking back. Look closer and the pattern reveals itself as something smaller and more familiar, the cross section of a single kiwi, its ring of seeds turned into a corona of dots, its pale flesh into a field of radiating light. A Ring Scratched Into Green takes the quiet interior of a fruit and lets it become a whole cosmos. Green carries the piece. It is the color of the fruit's own flesh, the color of things still growing, and here it becomes the color of the glass itself. The image is not placed on top of that green, it is taken out of it, so the fruit and the material holding it speak the same language before a single mark is made. Nothing here is painted, printed or added. The contour of the fruit and the ring of seeds are formed by controlled scratches worked directly into the coloured mirror glass, thick lines holding the shape, a field of fine marks catching the light only on the side the light would naturally fall. The rest of the fruit stays dark, left to the glass, so the image is built as much from what is withheld as from what is drawn. The image is always there. It does not need direct light to exist, and it never disappears as you move past it. What light changes is depth: under a stronger light the scratches gather more shine and the contrast between the radiating seeds and the black core deepens, while in softer light the same ring settles quietly into the surface. Light does not create the image. It sharpens it. Because the surface is mirror glass, the room comes with it. Stand in front of the work and your own reflection settles into the dark spaces between the seeds, so the ring is never just fruit and glass, it is fruit, glass and whoever is standing there looking. From across a room the piece reads as one clean, glowing circle. Close up, that circle dissolves into a field of individual marks, each one part of a whole that only holds together at a distance. A Ring Scratched Into Green continues the Art on Mirror series by Tijs Dragtsma, in which scratched imagery is set into coloured mirror glass and the viewer becomes part of the work. A visual language where damage is not destruction, but structure, and where the mirror turns looking into taking part. "A seed ring turned into light, held in green glass that remembers where it came from." About Art on Mirror – Green Art on Mirror is a body of work in which the image is scratched into coloured mirror glass, and the world in front of the work becomes part of it. Every line is cut into a deep green mirrored surface of acrylic glass. The scratches are always there, bright against the colour, while the surface around them keeps reflecting the room, the daylight and the person looking. From a distance the image reads clear and complete, a pale figure held in a field of green. Step closer and the work opens into a delicate web of individual marks, fine and deliberate, each one essential to the whole. Behind and between them the mirror does what a mirror does. It carries the room and the viewer into the composition, so the surroundings in the work change with the place where it hangs, while the image itself stays firmly in place. Light does not create the image. It sharpens it. The green ground absorbs and reflects, the scratched lines catch and hold, and under a focused spotlight the contrast deepens until the figure takes on a sculptural, almost luminous quality. In softer light the colour comes forward and the work settles into a quieter register, without ever losing its subject. Green is the colour of growth, of forests and of things that keep returning. That is the emotional ground every work in this series is set against, and the subjects are chosen to belong to it. Art on Mirror continues the scratched imagery of Art with Scratch by Tijs Dragtsma on a new ground. Where the black works draw their power from absence, these draw it from reflection. The viewer is no longer only looking at the work. The viewer is in it. About the Artist My name is Tijs Dragtsma, founder of TD Fine Art Studio. As an artist, I am driven by a constant desire to explore new visual languages. I do not see art as a fixed style, but as an evolving field of discovery where material, structure, light and emotion come together. My work often begins with a simple question. How can a material speak in a new way. How can hardness become intimacy. How can precision create emotion. That search lies at the heart of everything I create. Within TD Fine Art Studio, each body of work is approached as its own world, with its own logic, atmosphere and visual identity. Some works are built through rhythm, repetition and structure. Others emerge through absence, shadow, reflection or tension. What connects them is a shared commitment to originality, clarity and emotional presence. I am fascinated by contrast. Between strength and fragility. Between control and feeling. Between what is visible and what is left open to interpretation. My goal is not simply to make an image, but to create a work that holds attention, invites reflection and continues to reveal itself over time. TD Fine Art Studio is the space in which these explorations come together. It is not only a studio, but an evolving artistic universe shaped by curiosity, precision and the ambition to create work that feels distinctive, intentional and alive.

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