{"product_id":"gandhi-in-the-green","title":"Gandhi in the Green","description":"\u003cp\u003eOut of the black void a face gathers itself in light, the round wire glasses, the bald head, the soft fall of a shawl across the shoulders. These are the attributes the whole world recognises without needing a name attached, and here they are given back to us not as a photograph but as a field of marks, built by removal rather than addition. No paint. No print. No ink. The image is scratched into the surface of the coloured mirror glass, one controlled mark at a time, until a likeness holds together out of pure damage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe glass itself is deep green, a colour that was never a neutral choice for this face. Green carries growth, restraint, the quiet discipline of a life lived close to the earth, and it sits behind Gandhi's portrait the way conviction sits behind a soft voice. The colour does not decorate the man, it argues for him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLight does not create this image, it sharpens what is already there. The scratches are visible in any room, in any hour, but under a direct light the marks catch and throw, the contrast deepens, the glasses and the folds of the shawl gain a depth that flat light cannot give them. Turn away and the face does not vanish. Only the reflection around it changes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStand back and the whole portrait reads as one calm, monumental presence holding its own weight in the room. Step closer and that certainty dissolves into a field of individual marks, disciplined, dense, deliberately unfinished at the edges where the shawl gives way to black. Between those two distances is where the work actually lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause this is mirror glass, you are never only looking at Gandhi. Your own outline, the room behind you, whoever is standing beside you, all of it gathers in the dark green field around the scratched light. The work does not ask you to observe it from a safe distance, it pulls the room and the viewer into the same surface as the subject, so that looking becomes a kind of standing beside him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGandhi in the 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. This work is unique.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Some faces are not painted. They are uncovered.\"\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":59429757550917,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0904\/0724\/0005\/files\/Gandhi_in_the_Green_thumbnail.jpg?v=1789939922","url":"https:\/\/tdfineartstudio.com\/products\/gandhi-in-the-green","provider":"TD Fine Art Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}