Spider-Man needs no introduction, yet here he is reduced to almost nothing: a head, two eyes, a web that was never painted but pulled out of the surface itself. This work holds the mask as a trace of light suspended in deep red coloured mirror glass, the shape held together by a field of individual marks rather than by colour or print. No paint, no print, no ink. The image sits in the surface of the glass, formed by controlled scratches that catch and scatter light while the untouched red around them stays whole, dark, closed. The eyes are drawn in a single thick line and left hollow, the web radiates outward from a point between them, a signal more than a face. Red carries the subject here as much as the drawing does. It is the colour of the suit, of warning, of a heartbeat under pressure, the colour the city turns to under a certain kind of streetlight. Set into red coloured mirror glass, the mask stops being a costume and becomes an alarm, a presence that holds the room rather than decorates it. The mirror is part of the work. Around the traced head, the glass gives back the room exactly as it is: the walls, the light fixtures, whoever is standing in front of it. The viewer is pulled into the same red field the mask occupies, no longer separate from the image but held inside it. Light does not create this image. It sharpens it. The mask is visible under any light, and under a directed beam the scratches deepen in contrast and begin to hold more shine, while only the reflection around it changes with the room. From across a room the head reads instantly, a single recognisable silhouette traced in white against red. Close up it dissolves into a field of fine scratches, each one placed on its own, none of them a line you could follow alone. Spider-Man Traced in Red 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. "A mask is a face you choose to show. This one is scratched into red, and it chooses you back." 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. This listing contains AI-generated visualisations. Please refer to the original photographs to assess the actual condition of the object.