Tijs Dragtsma (1992) - A Torque Held in Stone

A Torque Held in Stone 以单一的动作开场，被抓住、被定格。一个成年男性躯干在斜斜的侧光中扭动，肌肉与腱脉清晰凸显，仿佛身体正处于动作的瞬间被突然、永久地定住。这个姿势承载着旧大师雕塑的重量，不再以解剖学呈现，而是以结构呈现，石头似在这一刻获得呼吸。

No paint. No print. No ink. The image is scratched into the surface of the acrylic glass, built through controlled surface damage rather than pigment. Every plane of muscle, every fall of shadow, exists because something was taken away, not added, an image made by removal.

没有颜料，没有印刷，没有墨水。影像被刻划在丙烯玻璃的表面上，通过受控的表面损伤而非颜料来构建。每一块肌肉的平面、每一道阴影的落差，都是因为被去除了什么，而不是添加，图像是通过去除而成。

The image is always present, in soft room light or none at all. Light does not create it. Light sharpens it. Under a single hard source from above, the scratches catch and hold, and the contrast deepens until the figure feels closer to carved stone than photograph. Seen from another angle, the same torso settles into quiet, without ever losing its form.

影像始终存在，或在柔和的室内光线中，或在完全无光的环境里。光并不创造它，光使它更锋利。来自上方唯一的强光源下，划痕被捕捉、被固定，对比度加深，直到人物更像雕刻的石头而非照片。换一个角度观察，同一躯干安然地沉静下来，形体从未消失。

From across a room the body reads as monumental, a single twisting mass suspended in a pure black field, the negative space around it pressing close. Step nearer and that mass opens into a field of controlled scratches, a surface that only resolves back into form once you step away again.

从房间另一端看去，身体显得宏伟，是一个扭转的单一物块，悬浮在纯黑的背景之中，周围的空白压得很紧。走近一些，那团块被解析成一片受控的划痕场，只有你再次后退时，表面才重新呈现出形态。

There is a tension built into the title itself. Torque is force in motion, a twist about to release. Stone is stillness, something already settled and unmovable. This work holds both at once, a body suspended between effort and calm, between the instant a muscle contracts and the instant it is remembered.

标题本身就内含张力。Torque 表示运动中的力，正要释放的扭转；Stone 则是静止，已安放、不可移动。此件作品同时承载两者——一个悬于力与宁静之间、肌肉收缩的一瞬与被记起的一瞬之间的身体。

A Torque Held in Stone 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.

A Torque Held in Stone 延续了 Tijs Dragtsma 的“Art with Scratch”系列，在这一系列中，图像通过受控的表面损伤而非颜料或印刷来构建。它是一种视觉语言，在其中损伤不是毁灭，而是结构。

"The body remembers what stone cannot forget."

“身体记得石头忘记不了的东西。”

About Art with Scratch

关于 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.

Art with Scratch 是一组作品，其中影像不是被绘制，而是被释放。逐线切 carve into a 深黑色表面，每一件作品都通过无数精确的划痕在光线下捕捉并将形态从黑暗中带出。

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.

从远处看，影像几近照片级真实。强烈、易于辨识且充满存在感。然而近看之下，作品化为密集的单独痕迹场。细小而脆弱，几乎轻如无物。原本看似坚实的东西，揭示出一张精致的线条网，每一条都是有意的手势，对整体至关重要。

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.

光并不创造影像，而是让它更清晰。黑色表面吸收光线，划痕的线条则反射光线。随着光线在表面上移动，影像似有呼吸。从一个角度看，形象清晰且分明；从另一个角度看，它变得柔和，回落到最初的黑暗之中，始终没有消失。在聚光灯下，对比度加深，影像呈现出雕塑般、几乎发光的质感。

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.

使这一媒介如此引人入胜的，是它那种安静的张力。划痕的行为直接且不可逆转。每一条线都是一个不能撤回的决断。然而结果并不粗暴。它亲密、富有氛围、充满运动。硬度转化为柔软，破坏化为创造，缺席化为存在。

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.

像本作这样的肖像之中，形象并未被完全固定。通过线条、光与影的交互，影像随视角与氛围而改变。在某些时刻，主体似乎从黑色中走向前方；在其他时刻，它又回落至静止之中。正是在这股在锋利与宁静之间的运动中，作品焕发出生命力。

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.

像所有被时间触及的材料一样，表面也承载着自己的静默生命。每一道划痕承载着一个瞬间、一口气、一种姿态。它们共同构成的不仅是影像，而是一种存在感，随着光线的每一次变化持续显现。

About the Artist

关于艺术家

My name is Tijs Dragtsma, founder of TD Fine Art Studio.

我的名字是 Tijs Dragtsma，TD Fine Art Studio 的创始人。

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.

作为一名艺术家，我始终渴望探索新的视觉语言。我不把艺术视为固定风格，而是一个不断发展的发现领域，在那里材料、结构、光线和情感融合在一起。

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.

我的创作常常从一个简单的问题开始：如何让材料以全新的方式发声？如何让硬度转化为亲密？如何让精准创造情感？这场探索正是我创作一切的核心。

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.

在 TD Fine Art Studio 内，每一组作品都被视为一个独立的世界，拥有自己的逻辑、氛围和视觉身份。有些作品通过节奏、重复和结构构建；另一部分则通过缺席、阴影、反射或张力而显现。它们共同的纽带，是对原创性、清晰度与情感呈现的共同承诺。

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.

我对对比充满迷恋。强大与脆弱之间、掌控与情感之间、可见与留给解读之间。我的目标不仅是创造一个影像，而是创作一个能够吸引注意、引发反思并随时间持续自我揭示的作品。

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.

TD Fine Art Studio 是这些探索汇聚的空间。它不仅是一个工作室，还是一个由好奇心、精准性以及打造独特、用心且充满活力的作品所塑造的不断演化的艺术宇宙。