{"product_id":"a-wave-holds-the-blue","title":"A Wave Holds the Blue","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Wave Holds the Blue brings the great curling wave after Hokusai into deep blue coloured mirror glass, the most famous swell in art history reborn as a field of controlled scratches rather than a painted print. No paint, no print, no ink, only removal, and from that removal the claws of foam rise bright while the body of the water stays dark and unbroken around them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUp close the wave dissolves into a field of individual marks, each one small and deliberate, and from a distance they gather back into the sweep of the crest and its grasping fingers of spray. The small boats and the far mountain sit almost lost beneath the curl, dark silhouettes cut out of the glow, a reminder of how small any vessel is against the sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlue carries the subject here in the most direct way a colour can, the wave finally given the depth and weight of real water rather than the flat white of paper. It is the colour of the sea closing over the boats, and of every tide that returns, patient and indifferent to what stands in its way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mirror is never passive behind the image. The room, its light and the person standing before it are drawn into the blue, so the viewer is pulled into the same swell as the boats, caught in the wave rather than simply looking at it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe image is always present, in daylight and in shadow alike. Light does not create it, light sharpens it, deepening the contrast and letting the foam catch and hold a shine while the reflection around it shifts with the room, the wave itself never moving.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Wave Holds the Blue 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\"The wave does not ask permission. It simply arrives, and everything reflected in it arrives too.\"\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":60027236548933,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0904\/0724\/0005\/files\/A_Wave_Holds_the_Blue_thumbnail.jpg?v=1793571005","url":"https:\/\/tdfineartstudio.com\/products\/a-wave-holds-the-blue","provider":"TD Fine Art Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}