{"product_id":"a-cluster-held-in-green","title":"A Cluster Held in Green","description":"\u003cp\u003eA bunch of grapes hangs alone in the green, held by a single curling tendril and one leaf, with nothing to anchor it but its own weight. A Cluster Held in Green takes this small, familiar form and lifts it into something closer to a relic, a thing caught between ripeness and stillness, glowing at the edge of disappearing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe image is not painted or printed onto the surface. It is formed by removing the surface itself, a field of individual marks cut into deep green coloured mirror glass until the vine, the leaf and the curl of the tendril emerge as light where the material has been taken away. Up close the work is a field of fine scratches, a dense weave of lines across the leaf, a looser scatter tracing each round grape. Step back and the cluster resolves into one quiet, monumental shape, suspended in green.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreen carries the meaning here. It is the colour of the vine before the fruit darkens, of growth held just before it turns toward wine, and the whole image now lives inside that colour instead of against it. The grapes sit as near black spheres within the green glass, each one rimmed with a thin line of caught light, so the fruit reads as volume and shadow at once, heavy and weightless together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe image is always present in the glass, with or without direct light. Light does not create it. It sharpens it, so that under a focused beam the scratches catch and the contrast deepens, and in softer light the cluster settles back into the green, present but quieter. What changes with the room is the reflection around the image, never the image itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause the surface is mirrored, the wall behind you, the room you stand in and your own reflection move across the green glass and settle around the grapes and between them. You are not looking at a fixed picture. You become part of what surrounds it, caught in the same deep green as the fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Cluster Held in 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Held in green, the cluster waits between ripening and stillness.\"\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":59799142695237,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0904\/0724\/0005\/files\/A_Cluster_Held_in_Green_thumbnail.jpg?v=1792313527","url":"https:\/\/tdfineartstudio.com\/products\/a-cluster-held-in-green","provider":"TD Fine Art Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}