{"product_id":"a-flame-spirals-into-stairs","title":"A Flame Spirals Into Stairs","description":"\u003cp\u003eA candle becomes a staircase, and a staircase becomes a candle. In A Flame Spirals Into Stairs, the body of the candle climbs in a slow spiral, each drip of wax reimagined as a step, each step still carrying the soft curve of melted wax. At the top, a single flame holds its shape like a quiet keeper of the stairs it lights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo paint. No print. No ink. The image is scratched into the surface of the acrylic glass, a field of individual marks that gathers into candle, staircase and flame the way the eye gathers meaning from suggestion. From across the room the work reads as one object, poised and strange. Up close it resolves into the marks themselves, a field of fine scratches that never fully leave their raw, physical state.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe image is always present, in daylight as in dim light. Light does not create the image, it sharpens it. Under direct light the scratches catch and hold their glow, the contrast deepens, the steps seem to rise a little further into the dark. It reads differently from different angles, without ever losing the image.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe piece carries a quiet logic worthy of Magritte, where one familiar object is allowed to become another without ever losing its first identity. A candle is a measure of time burning away, a staircase is a promise of ascent. Here the two share a single body, and the flame becomes both the light that guides the climb and the force that is slowly consuming the very steps it illuminates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Flame Spirals Into Stairs 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\"Some things only rise because something else is quietly burning down.\"\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":60147767574853,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0904\/0724\/0005\/files\/A_Flame_Spirals_Into_Stairs_thumbnail.jpg?v=1794259028","url":"https:\/\/tdfineartstudio.com\/products\/a-flame-spirals-into-stairs","provider":"TD Fine Art Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}