{"product_id":"girl-with-a-pearl-earring-1","title":"Girl with a Pearl Earring","description":"\u003cp\u003eGirl with a Pearl Earring is a contemporary artwork about memory, devotion, and a gaze that turns away after three and a half centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe is the most famous glance in the history of painting, and here she is caught in a different second. The head tilts, the face lowers into shadow, the scarf falls in long loosened strands. Vermeer held her forever at the moment of turning toward us. This work lets her continue the movement, away, back into the dark she came from.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo paint. No print. No ink. The image appears through controlled surface damage on acrylic glass. The scarf and brow are storms of fine scratches that catch the light as the viewer moves, while the famous face keeps most of itself in untouched black. The pearl is barely there, a small insistence of light at the edge of shadow. From a distance she is unmistakable. Step closer and she dissolves into marks, the way any memory does when examined too directly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn homage in this medium is honest about what an icon really is. We do not own the painting. We own the trace it scratched into us. This work is that trace, made physical, a girl who exists in exactly the places where the surface was damaged and nowhere else.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGirl with a Pearl Earring 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\u003e\"She turns, and three centuries turn with her.\"\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":59161473876293,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0904\/0724\/0005\/files\/Girl_with_a_Pearl_Earring_thumbnail_26d849d1-eb62-4471-ac33-7c50ce81860b.jpg?v=1788738609","url":"https:\/\/tdfineartstudio.com\/products\/girl-with-a-pearl-earring-1","provider":"TD Fine Art Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}