{"product_id":"a-fist-of-quiet-embers","title":"A Fist of Quiet Embers","description":"\u003cp\u003eA heavy bunch of grapes hangs free on the vine, full and weighted, yet not one grape here catches ordinary light. The fruit sits unlit, black, folded in on itself inside a deep black void where nothing else is allowed to exist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBehind the bunch a pale glow gathers, then gives way to black again long before it reaches the edge of the frame. Only along the topmost grapes does a pair of thin bright lines survive, the last visible seam of something otherwise banked down to char. This is A Fist of Quiet Embers, a clenched hand of fruit holding its own warmth rather than letting it go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNothing here is painted or printed. The image is scratched into the surface of deep red coloured mirror glass, built through controlled surface damage rather than anything added. From across the room the grapes read as one dense, monumental form. Come closer and that form opens into a field of controlled scratches, each one a small decision, together carrying all the weight and shadow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRed carries as much of the meaning here as the drawing does, the colour of banked heat, of fruit before it becomes wine, of a glow kept low and private instead of let loose. It does not decorate the image, it is the ember the fist is holding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe scratches are always there, in daylight, in shadow, at any hour. Light does not create the image. It sharpens it. Under a directed light the surface catches, the contrast deepens, and that pair of bright lines along the topmost grapes flares a little brighter. Away from that light the grapes are still entirely visible, unchanged in shape and weight. What shifts is only the reflection around them, never the fruit itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat reflection is the room, and it is you. Around and between the scratches, the coloured mirror glass keeps doing what mirrors do, holding whoever stands in front of it, so the black void is never quite empty. A Fist of Quiet Embers 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA visual language where damage is not destruction, but structure, and where the mirror turns looking into taking part.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A quiet fire, held instead of shown.\"\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":59580269789509,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0904\/0724\/0005\/files\/A_Fist_of_Quiet_Embers_thumbnail.jpg?v=1791175392","url":"https:\/\/tdfineartstudio.com\/products\/a-fist-of-quiet-embers","provider":"TD Fine Art Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}