Tijs Dragtsma (1992) - A Body Striped in Silver

A Body Striped in Silver holds a figure caught between visibility and shadow, her torso built entirely from bands of fine scratches that fall across her like light through a half closed blind. The face tips back into darkness, the legs dissolve into the same black ground, and what remains is a body read only in fragments, chest, stomach, the soft turn of a shoulder, each one picked out where the surface has been worked and left to catch the light. No paint. No print. No ink. The image is scratched into the acrylic glass, a field of individual marks laid in parallel bands so the body seems wrapped in stripes of brightness rather than lit by them. At the chest, one band breaks and a small dark shape remains untouched, a single pause in the rhythm, as if the light itself hesitated there. From across a room the figure reads as a single clear form, monumental in its stillness. Close against the glass, that form breaks apart into a field of fine scratches, a hand worked rhythm of lines that only resolves again as you step back. The image is always present, with or without direct light. Light does not create it, it sharpens it, deepening the contrast and letting the stripes hold their shine. What is withheld carries as much weight as what is shown. A face turned into shadow, legs that refuse to surface, a body offered only in the parts the light chooses to strike, this is intimacy built from restraint rather than exposure, a presence that stays partly its own even while standing fully bare. A Body Striped in Silver continues the Art with Scratch series by Tijs Dragtsma, in which imagery is constructed through controlled surface damage rather than pigment or print. It reads differently from different angles, without ever losing the image. This work is unique. "Some light does not reveal a body. It withholds just enough to keep it hers." About Art with Scratch Art with Scratch is a body of work in which the image is not drawn, but released. Carved line by line into a deep black surface, each work emerges through countless precise scratches that catch the light and bring form out of darkness. From a distance, the image appears almost photographic. Powerful, recognisable and full of presence. Yet up close, the work dissolves into a dense field of individual marks. Fine, fragile and almost weightless. What seemed solid reveals itself as a delicate web of lines, each one a deliberate gesture, each one essential to the whole. Light does not create the image. It sharpens it. The black surface absorbs, while the scratched lines reflect. As light shifts across the surface, the image breathes. From one angle the figure stands clear and defined. From another it softens and settles back toward the darkness from which it came, without ever disappearing. Under a focused spotlight, the contrast deepens and the image takes on a sculptural, almost luminous quality. What makes this medium so compelling is its quiet tension. The act of scratching is direct and irreversible. Every line is a decision that cannot be undone. Yet the result is not harsh. It is intimate, atmospheric and alive with movement. Hardness becomes softness. Destruction becomes creation. Absence becomes presence. In works such as this portrait, the figure is never fully fixed. Through the interplay of line, light and shadow, the image shifts with perspective and atmosphere. At certain moments, the subject seems to step forward out of the black. At others, it settles back into stillness. It is within that movement, between sharpness and calm, that the work comes alive. Like all materials touched by time, the surface carries its own quiet life. Each scratch holds a moment, a breath, a gesture. Together they form not just an image, but a presence, one that continues to reveal itself with every change of light. 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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