Tijs Dragtsma (1992) - Two Eyes Fused as One

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Tijs Dragtsma (1992) - Two Eyes Fused as One

Two Eyes Fused as One begins with almost nothing: a pair of curved horns catching a single hard light, and beneath them, a hollow so complete it swallows anything the eyes might have held. Where a demon mask usually stares back, this one offers a shared, black nothing instead, one socket standing in for two, and that absence unsettles more than any painted glare could. The image is scratched into the surface of deep red coloured mirror glass, never applied on top of it. A field of individual marks catches and holds the light, tracing the curl of the horns, the ridge of the brow and the jagged crown of teeth below, while everything around the mask is left to the glass itself, dark, still, reflective. Red is not decoration here. It is the colour of the mask's own lacquer and of something older, warning, ritual, blood kept just under the skin, so the material and the subject share one colour and one meaning. Light does not create this image. It sharpens it. In a dim room the mask still holds its shape, present rather than hidden; step closer with direct light and the contrast deepens, the horns lift off the surface, the mouth of teeth grows sharper. What shifts is never the mask itself but the room around it, folded into the red glass along with whoever stands in front of it. That is the quiet trick of the piece. The eye holes are empty, but the mirror is not: your own reflection settles into the space where a stare should be, so the demon looks out at you with your own face, if only for as long as you look back. Monumental from across a room, the mask resolves up close into a field of fine scratches and nothing else, no ink, no print, no paint standing between you and the glass. Two Eyes Fused as One 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. This work is unique. "One hollow, two histories, and your own face filling the space where the eyes should be." About Art on Mirror – Red Art on Mirror is a body of work in which the image is scratched into coloured mirror glass, and the world in front of the work becomes part of it. Every line is cut into a deep red mirrored surface of acrylic glass. The scratches are always there, bright against the colour, while the surface around them keeps reflecting the room, the daylight and the person looking. From a distance the image reads clear and complete, a pale figure held in a field of red. Step closer and the work opens into a delicate web of individual marks, fine and deliberate, each one essential to the whole. Behind and between them the mirror does what a mirror does. It carries the room and the viewer into the composition, so the surroundings in the work change with the place where it hangs, while the image itself stays firmly in place. Light does not create the image. It sharpens it. The red ground absorbs and reflects, the scratched lines catch and hold, and under a focused spotlight the contrast deepens until the figure takes on a sculptural, almost luminous quality. In softer light the colour comes forward and the work settles into a quieter register, without ever losing its subject. Red is the colour of blood, of fire and of everything we cannot stay calm about. That is the emotional ground every work in this series is set against, and the subjects are chosen to belong to it. Art on Mirror continues the scratched imagery of Art with Scratch by Tijs Dragtsma on a new ground. Where the black works draw their power from absence, these draw it from reflection. The viewer is no longer only looking at the work. The viewer is in it. About the Artist My name is Tijs Dragtsma, founder of TD Fine Art Studio. As an artist, I am driven by a constant desire to explore new visual languages. I do not see art as a fixed style, but as an evolving field of discovery where material, structure, light and emotion come together. My work often begins with a simple question. How can a material speak in a new way. How can hardness become intimacy. How can precision create emotion. That search lies at the heart of everything I create. Within TD Fine Art Studio, each body of work is approached as its own world, with its own logic, atmosphere and visual identity. Some works are built through rhythm, repetition and structure. Others emerge through absence, shadow, reflection or tension. What connects them is a shared commitment to originality, clarity and emotional presence. I am fascinated by contrast. Between strength and fragility. Between control and feeling. Between what is visible and what is left open to interpretation. My goal is not simply to make an image, but to create a work that holds attention, invites reflection and continues to reveal itself over time. TD Fine Art Studio is the space in which these explorations come together. It is not only a studio, but an evolving artistic universe shaped by curiosity, precision and the ambition to create work that feels distinctive, intentional and alive.

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