{"product_id":"a-call-waiting-in-red","title":"A Call Waiting in Red","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the deep red coloured mirror glass stands a shape every eye already knows before it fully arrives, the London telephone box, its crown held high on the roof, its small window panes lined up in neat rows, its door left standing slightly open. Someone has just stepped out, or is about to step in. The booth holds that pause, the moment before the call connects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo paint, no print, no ink. The image is not applied onto the surface, it is formed by what has been taken away, a field of individual marks shaped into the red coloured mirror glass itself until the booth, its crown, its panes and its waiting door emerge from the removal. On the lit side, coarser marks catch and hold the light, while the rest of the form stays dark, unlit, folded back into the glass.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRed is the one colour this box has always worn, the colour of urgency, of a call that matters enough to make, of warmth held inside a cold iron frame. Here that same red carries the surface itself, so the telephone box is not only drawn in red, it rises out of red, as if the colour were the material it was always built from.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom across the room the booth reads as one steady, monumental silhouette. Step closer and it dissolves into a field of fine scratches, each one placed, none of them announcing itself, the image only holding together at a certain distance, the way memory holds together until you look too closely at it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mirror is part of the work. Around and between the marks, the room and the person standing in front of it are reflected back into the red, so the viewer is drawn into the same space as the booth, standing exactly where the next call would be answered. Light does not create this image, it is always there, present in the surface whether or not a lamp is aimed at it. What light does is sharpen it, deepen the contrast, let the scratches catch and hold a little more shine. The reflection around the work changes with the room. The image itself does not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Call Waiting in Red 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. This work is unique.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Some calls are never finished. The door stays open, and red remembers.\"\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 contact page.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TD Fine Art Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60027234451781,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0904\/0724\/0005\/files\/A_Call_Waiting_in_Red_thumbnail.jpg?v=1793570976","url":"https:\/\/tdfineartstudio.com\/products\/a-call-waiting-in-red","provider":"TD Fine Art Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}