{"product_id":"a-star-held-in-green","title":"A Star Held in Green","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Star Held in Green begins with a shape everyone already knows. Long neck, rounded shoulder, a label turned so the star faces forward, the silhouette of a Heineken bottle pulled out of a deep black void. What arrives on this coloured mirror glass is not a photograph of a bottle, it is a field of individual marks, left behind so the thing we recognise in half a second can be recognised again here, differently.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe image is scratched into the surface of deep green mirror glass, not applied onto it. No paint, no print, the picture is formed where the material has been taken away rather than added to. One side of the bottle lights up, the rim of the glass, the beads of condensation, the edges of the label and the small white star at its centre, each one a field of controlled scratches that catch and hold the light. The rest of the bottle stays dark, swallowed by the glass itself, so the object reads less like a product shot and more like something remembered in a dim room.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreen carries its own meaning here, the colour of the brand becomes the colour of the mirror that holds it, so the work and its subject share one surface, one identity. Stand close and the bottle dissolves into a field of fine scratches, none of them pretending to be a photograph. Step back and it resolves into the one shape that has sold itself on bar tops and in advertising for generations, except now it hangs alone in a wide dark field, stripped of a hand, a table, a crowd.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAround the bottle, in the untouched glass, the room keeps showing through, the gallery wall, the track lighting, whoever is standing in front of it. The viewer is folded into the same green surface as the star and the label, so looking at a familiar bottle becomes, for a moment, looking at yourself looking at it. Light does not create the image. It sharpens it, deepening the contrast between the bright rim and the black glass, while the reflection around it keeps shifting with the room, and the image itself stays exactly where it was scratched.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Star 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\"Even the most familiar shapes turn strange, held alone in the dark.\"\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":60027234746693,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0904\/0724\/0005\/files\/A_Star_Held_in_Green_thumbnail.jpg?v=1793570986","url":"https:\/\/tdfineartstudio.com\/products\/a-star-held-in-green","provider":"TD Fine Art Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}