{"product_id":"nefertiti-carved-from-starlight","title":"Nefertiti Carved From Starlight","description":"\u003cp\u003eNefertiti turns her face into a single beam of light, her crown rising into the dark like a tower that refuses to be forgotten. This portrait does not depict a woman so much as a presence, held together by a field of fine scratches that gathers into cheekbone, lip, and the long line of a royal neck.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNothing here is added. The image exists because the acrylic glass has been taken away in exactly the right places, scratch by scratch, until a queen long vanished from the world opens her eyes again on a dark gallery wall. No paint. No print. No ink.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeen straight on, she is almost photographic, the crown's weight, the proud set of the jaw, the stillness of someone who has been looked at for centuries and never blinked. Shift the angle, let the light fall differently, and the same marks settle into quiet, the image holding its ground in the dark rather than performing for it. Light does not create this image. It sharpens it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNefertiti has always meant beauty held at a cool distance, a ruler's face offered to history instead of to intimacy. Working her in controlled surface damage pushes that idea further, identity as something scratched into permanence rather than painted onto a moment, memory as a surface that keeps its shape under pressure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom across a room the work reads as monumental, a profile commanding the wall the way the original bust commands its museum case. Close up it dissolves into a field of individual marks, directionless and dense, proof that monumentality and fragility were built from the same gesture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis work continues the Art with Scratch series by Tijs Dragtsma, in which imagery is constructed through controlled surface damage rather than pigment or print. This work is unique.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Even the eternal, it turns out, can be made from scratches.\"\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":59807497027909,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0904\/0724\/0005\/files\/Nefertiti_Carved_From_Starlight_thumbnail.jpg?v=1792415040","url":"https:\/\/tdfineartstudio.com\/products\/nefertiti-carved-from-starlight","provider":"TD Fine Art Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}