{"product_id":"echo-of-john-wick-ii","title":"Echo of John Wick II","description":"\u003cp\u003eEcho of John Wick II does not portray a killer. It portrays a man undone by grief and rebuilt as precision. The violence here was never born from thrill or cruelty, it grew from love, from the quiet life he tried to protect, and from everything that collapsed once that life was taken from him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe emerges from an almost total darkness, black suit, dark tie, long hair and beard catching the last light before it disappears. His eyes hold the weight of the piece, intensely focused, unreadable, the calm of a man who has already decided what comes next. Around him, a vast black field of negative space presses in, leaving only his jaw, his gaze and the clean edge of his shoulders lit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo paint. No print. No ink. Every line of this face is scratched into the surface of the acrylic glass, built through removal rather than addition. The image exists because material was taken away, not placed on top of it, controlled surface damage shaped into a likeness that feels almost too precise to have come from something as raw as a scratch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe portrait is always present, with or without direct light. Light does not create the image here, it sharpens it. Under a shifting angle the contrast deepens, the silver of the scratches catches and glows, and the work reads differently as you move around it, without ever losing the man at its centre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom across a room the piece reads as monumental, a single figure holding an entire wall of black. Step closer and that certainty dissolves into a field of controlled scratches, a surface of raw marks that only resolves back into a face once you step away again. It is a portrait that asks to be seen twice, from a distance and up close.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEcho of John Wick II continues the Art with Scratch series by Tijs Dragtsma, in which imagery is constructed through controlled surface damage rather than pigment or print. Here that language becomes a way of speaking about mourning itself, about how loss can be carved into someone until grief and precision are no longer separable, a visual language where damage is not destruction, but structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"He did not choose violence. Violence was what remained of him.\"\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":58971469381957,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0904\/0724\/0005\/files\/Echo_of_John_Wick_II_thumbnail.jpg?v=1787519341","url":"https:\/\/tdfineartstudio.com\/products\/echo-of-john-wick-ii","provider":"TD Fine Art Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}