{"product_id":"a-crown-scratched-into-blue","title":"A Crown Scratched Into Blue","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Crown Scratched Into Blue holds three blueberries on a short twig, each one reduced to a round shape crowned with a small, star shaped mark and rimmed in a fine line of light. Around them, two leaves catch the same glow. Everything else is left to the deep blue coloured mirror glass that gives the whole work its quiet, nocturnal charge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe image was not painted or printed onto the surface. It was taken away. A field of individual marks, scratched into the glass itself, forms the rim of each berry and the vein of each leaf, so what you see is not an addition but a removal, a shape pulled out of the dark by controlled surface damage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlue carries its own weight here. It is the colour of dusk, of the hour when a handful of berries on a twig stops being a small thing and starts to look almost ceremonial, each one wearing its own small crown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe crown is always there, with or without direct light. What light does is sharpen it: under a focused beam the scratches catch and hold the glow, the contrast deepens, and the berries seem to lift slightly off the surface. Walk past, and the image never leaves, only the reflection around it shifts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause the surface is mirrored, the room you stand in becomes part of the composition. Your own outline settles into the blue alongside the twig and its leaves, so looking at the work means, for a moment, appearing inside it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Crown Scratched Into Blue 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. This work is unique.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Even the smallest things, held in enough dark, can wear a crown.\"\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":59799142859077,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0904\/0724\/0005\/files\/A_Crown_Scratched_Into_Blue_thumbnail.jpg?v=1792313532","url":"https:\/\/tdfineartstudio.com\/products\/a-crown-scratched-into-blue","provider":"TD Fine Art Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}