{"product_id":"figures-cross-the-girders","title":"Figures Cross the Girders","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe city rises as a lattice of girders, beams crossing the frame at every angle until the eye no longer finds a horizon, only structure. A single figure walks a high beam, small against the vast geometry, a second stands watching from a distant ledge. Between the diagonals, a pale circle hangs like a moon caught in the ironwork, the one soft form in a world built from straight lines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo paint. No print. No ink. The city and its walking figures are scratched into the surface of the acrylic glass, formed through controlled surface damage rather than pigment or print. Nothing is applied onto the surface, the image is built from what has been taken away, a monumental structure resolving, up close, into a field of controlled scratches.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe image is always present. Light does not create it, it sharpens it. Under direct light the beams catch and reflect, the contrast deepens and the girders seem to lift off the surface, while the pale circle holds its quiet glow. It reads differently from different angles, without ever losing the image.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is something of the old constructivist dream here, the city as machine, the worker as small and heroic against the frame he has built. The figures crossing the girders carry the whole emotional weight of the piece, human scale set against monumental structure, movement against the fixed geometry of steel and light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFigures Cross the Girders continues the Art with Scratch series by Tijs Dragtsma, in which imagery is constructed through controlled surface damage rather than pigment or print. A visual language where damage is not destruction, but structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis work is unique.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Between the beams, a small figure keeps walking, and the city holds its breath around 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":59034890862917,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0904\/0724\/0005\/files\/Figures_Cross_the_Girders_thumbnail.jpg?v=1788000224","url":"https:\/\/tdfineartstudio.com\/products\/figures-cross-the-girders","provider":"TD Fine Art Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}