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Identity is never fully fixed either. The face we carry into a room is part presence, part concealment. What this figure has lost, or chosen to release, the bird has taken its place. Whether that is freedom or erasure is a question the work does not answer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinged and Nameless continues the Art with Scratch series by Tijs Dragtsma, in which imagery is constructed through controlled surface damage rather than pigment or print. A visual language where damage is not destruction, but structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The face is gone. 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The image surfaces from absolute darkness, delicate branches carrying soft blossoms that seem to exist just at the threshold of the visible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVincent van Gogh painted Almond Blossoms in 1890 to welcome the birth of his nephew. It was an act of love reaching toward the future at a moment when his own was uncertain. Those branches against a bright open sky became one of the most quietly hopeful gestures he ever made. Here, that same subject returns not against light, but from within darkness, emerging the way a memory does when it rises without warning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo paint. No print. No ink. The image is built through controlled surface damage on acrylic glass. The blossoms do not appear because something has been placed there. They appear because the material has been marked, altered, opened. What is visible has been freed through removal, not addition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLight does the rest. As it shifts across the surface of the acrylic glass, the branches move between clarity and near disappearance. The flowers are present one moment and almost gone the next. That instability is not incidental. It is the work. Memory does not hold still either.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeen from a distance, the piece reads as a complete image, cinematic and still, luminous against the dark. Move closer and the image dissolves into a field of controlled scratches, each one catching the light at its own angle. The blossoms only exist in what the damage accumulates into. In the pattern. In the aggregate of marks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRemembered in Bloom continues the Art with Scratch series by Tijs Dragtsma, in which imagery is constructed through controlled surface damage rather than pigment or print. A visual language where damage is not destruction, but structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What we remember does not have to be visible to be real.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore about the artist, process and materials can be found on the About page.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuestions about this work, availability or shipping can be sent through the form below.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TD Fine Art Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58490134331717,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0904\/0724\/0005\/files\/Remembered_in_Bloom_thumbnail.jpg?v=1783432999"}],"url":"https:\/\/tdfineartstudio.com\/collections\/at-auction.oembed","provider":"TD Fine Art Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}