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Still Under Everything on nykyaikainen taideteos, joka käsittelee painoa, hiljaisuutta ja hiljaista absurdiutta siitä, mitä kannamme mukanaan ilman että kukaan olisi siitä kysynyt.

Still Under Everything is a contemporary artwork about weight, silence and the quiet absurdity of what we carry without ever being asked.

A figure with a moon where the face should be sits motionless on a brutalist concrete block. On its shoulders, a small white car, balanced there with the ease of something that has always been. There is no protest in the posture. No strain. Only a stillness so complete it begins to feel like acceptance.

The influence of René Magritte is deliberate but restrained. Magritte understood that surrealism was not about escape from reality, it was about seeing reality too clearly. This image follows that logic. The moon replaces the face not to hide identity, but to suggest something untethered, something lunar and cold and far away from the world of cars and concrete that surrounds it.

The figure appears through controlled surface damage on acrylic glass. No paint. No print. No ink. Light moves across the surface and deepens the image, so that the figure breathes between clarity and quiet shadow. From across the room, the composition reads as a single monumental image. Closer, it dissolves into a field of precise marks, each one a moment of removal rather than addition.

Brutalist concrete carries no warmth. It was built to endure, not to comfort. Seated on it, the figure is not trapped but placed. It belongs to a world that holds weight without asking why, and it holds all of it, still, without complaint, without expression.

Still Under Everything 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.

"We carry the strangest things. And we sit so still while doing it."

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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Tijs Dragtsma (1992) - Still Under Everything

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Still Under Everything on 51 × 51 cm:n nykyaikainen vegvetekniikalla tehty teos Tijs Dragtsmaltä (s. 1992), allekirjoitettu, alkuperäinen kappale, myyty suoraan taiteilijalta Alankomaista vuonna 2026, kehyksissä, erinomaisessa kunnossa, mustavalkoinen.

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Still Under Everything on 51 × 51 cm:n nykyaikainen vegvetekniikalla tehty teos Tijs Dragtsmaltä (s. 1992), allekirjoitettu, alkuperäinen kappale, myyty suoraan taiteilijalta Alankomaista vuonna 2026, kehyksissä, erinomaisessa kunnossa, mustavalkoinen.

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