{"product_id":"carried-without-knowing","title":"Carried Without Knowing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Carried Without Knowing\" is a contemporary artwork about scale, unknowing, and the structures we build on forces too large to see.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA hand lies flat in absolute darkness, vast as a continent, still as a sleeping thing. On its fingers, brutalist buildings rise in silence, a city arranged on skin as though on stone. There is no horizon. There is no sky. There is only the hand, and the weight of what has been built upon it, and the darkness that holds everything equally.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne figure crosses the palm. Tiny against the architecture around it, it moves toward a glowing doorway cut into the wrist, an entrance into the body itself. The figure is small enough to be anyone. The destination is uncertain. What the light behind the door offers, the image refuses to say.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is what the title carries. We build our lives on something enormous. We walk, we plan, we follow the light we can find. And the ground beneath us breathes without our permission, holds us without knowing we are there, or knowing fully, and choosing silence either way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo paint. No print. No ink. The image emerges through controlled scratches on acrylic glass, each mark a precise act of removal. As the viewer shifts, the light moves across the surface and the hand appears and recedes, the buildings sharpen and dissolve. From across the room, the scene is architectural and monumental. Up close, the surface opens into a field of controlled surface damage, structure built from nothing added, only taken away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis work 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\"You were always being carried. You simply did not know by what.\"\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":58490124566853,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0904\/0724\/0005\/files\/Carried_Without_Knowing_thumbnail.jpg?v=1783432931","url":"https:\/\/tdfineartstudio.com\/es\/products\/carried-without-knowing","provider":"TD Fine Art Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}