I recently stumbled across the jaw-dropping work of Desiree Palmen, an artist you'd never want to play hide and seek with...because she's a master at this invisble art-form...LOOK VERY CLOSELY. Palmen achieves the blending effect not through digital manipulation but by pain-painstakingly painting and texturing special camouflage suits which only work when observed from a particular vantage point.
If the viewer moved one step away from this ideal view, then the function of the camouflage seizes to exist. What does Palmen want us to get out of this? She wants us to think about our social context and our desire to step out of it. She wants us to think about the way the world has a hold on us and how it keeps us "detained in the artificial light everywhere-represented and in an optimal visibility, for the use of a controlled society." Because "only those who adapt themselves can possibly withdraw from it."
What do you get out of it?
1 comment:
Very Interesting...
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