{"product_id":"a-lattice-caught-in-light","title":"A Lattice Caught in Light","description":"\u003cp\u003eA field of cubes fills the frame, each one carrying a white face, a grey face and a black face, stacked and wedged against each other until the pile reads less like objects and more like a single folded surface. Look once and you are standing above a cluster of solid blocks, their lit tops catching the eye. Look again and the same shapes tip into their own hollows, as if you were looking down into a nest of open pits instead of up at raised corners. Nothing in the drawing changes. Only your reading of near and far does.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe scratching keeps only the brightest planes. Where the source holds white, grey and black in careful gradation, the surface here lets the grey dissolve into the surrounding dark and holds back only the white faces as a lattice of lit diamonds, suspended in black. What remains is the skeleton of the illusion itself, the exact set of planes the eye needs to flip the reading, with everything else given back to the void.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the pleasure of a reversible figure, familiar from the long tradition of drawings that cannot be seen two ways at once, only one way, then the other, then back again. Step back and the lit shapes lock into a cluster of solid blocks. Come close and that certainty loosens, the same marks tipping into hollows, and the switch itself becomes the subject, a small reminder that seeing is something the eye does, not something a surface simply hands over.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Lattice Caught in Light belongs to Look Twice, a series within Art with Scratch by Tijs Dragtsma in which imagery is constructed through controlled surface damage rather than pigment or print, and in which that same damage becomes a way of noticing that seeing is something we do rather than something that happens to us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo paint. No print. No ink. The image is scratched into the surface of the acrylic glass, built from a field of individual marks that only becomes a lattice of lit cubes at a distance. The image is always present, in any light. Direct light does not create it, it sharpens it, deepening the contrast between the glowing faces and the black they rest in, and letting the two readings trade places more readily as you move.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom across a room it sits as a tight, monumental cluster of light. Up close it opens into a quiet field of fine scratches, the same structure seen from inside instead of from afar. A visual language where damage is not destruction, but structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Some shapes only hold still until you look twice.\"\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":60027231732037,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0904\/0724\/0005\/files\/A_Lattice_Caught_in_Light_thumbnail.jpg?v=1793570858","url":"https:\/\/tdfineartstudio.com\/products\/a-lattice-caught-in-light","provider":"TD Fine Art Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}