{"product_id":"a-torso-bowed-in-embers","title":"A Torso Bowed in Embers","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Torso Bowed in Embers holds a single figure caught mid gesture, head lowered, shoulders turning inward, as if listening to something inside itself rather than facing the room. There is no face to read, no name to attach, only the plain fact of a body carrying weight. That absence is the subject. Without a face the torso stops being someone and becomes anyone, a study in what a body does when it has nowhere left to hide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNothing here is painted or printed. The image is built by removal, a field of individual marks worked into the surface until muscle, shadow and the fall of light emerge from what has been taken away rather than added. Seen across a room the figure reads as one clear, monumental form. Step closer and that form dissolves into a field of fine scratches, each one part of the whole and none of them the whole on its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe glass itself is red, a deep, poured red that never breaks toward the edges of the frame. Red carries its own charge here, the colour of what lies just beneath skin, of exposure and heat, fitting for a figure stripped down to its bare structure and still standing. Embers do not blaze, they hold heat quietly, and that is the register this work chooses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe scratches are always there, visible in low light as much as bright. Light does not create this image, it sharpens it. Under a direct source the marks catch and lift, the contrast deepens and the figure gains weight and depth, but the image itself never appears or disappears. What changes with the room is only the reflection moving around the figure, never the figure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause the surface is mirrored, the wall behind you, the light in your room, your own outline, all settle into the red ground around the scratched body. You are not looking at the work from a safe distance, you are folded into it, standing in the same red field as the figure that bows before you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Torso Bowed in 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. A visual language where damage is not destruction, but structure, and where the mirror turns looking into taking part.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What is stripped away still stands.\"\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":59429757321541,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0904\/0724\/0005\/files\/A_Torso_Bowed_in_Embers_thumbnail.jpg?v=1789939909","url":"https:\/\/tdfineartstudio.com\/products\/a-torso-bowed-in-embers","provider":"TD Fine Art Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}