{"product_id":"touching-the-sun","title":"Touching the sun","description":"\u003cp\u003eTouching the sun is a contemporary artwork about aspiration, risk, and the human refusal to stay in the dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA figure leans into a flood of radiance, arms flung wide, body arched like a dancer at full reach. The light pours past in long diagonal streaks, filling the canvas around the silhouette. The figure itself stays black. However far it reaches, the light does not enter it. That tension is the whole story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo paint. No print. No ink. The radiance is built from controlled scratches in acrylic glass, a directional storm of lines that flares and dims as the viewer moves. The figure exists as pure absence inside it, an untouched shape at the centre of everything that shines. From a distance the gesture is triumphant. Step closer and the light becomes a texture of fine damage, and the reaching body a hole in it, and the work turns quieter, almost cautionary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe old story says the boy flew too close and the sun took him. It is told as a warning, but it survives as an aspiration, because everyone understands why he kept climbing. This figure holds that exact instant, stretched between wanting the light and remaining what we are, a shape the light surrounds but never fills.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTouching the sun 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\"Some reach for warmth. Some reach for the burning itself.\"\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":58604199969093,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0904\/0724\/0005\/files\/Touching_the_sun_thumbnail.jpg?v=1784321965","url":"https:\/\/tdfineartstudio.com\/products\/touching-the-sun","provider":"TD Fine Art Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}