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The beauty of camouflage
I had never heard of her either and the idea has been used before, but I like these pieces. A new take on an old riff. Here's a link to her site: Desiree Palmen. While some of the text on her site suggests an obsession with the theme of surveillance, what strikes me most forcefully in her most successful pictures is the weight of anonymity, of losing the trees for the forest as the subject merges with the background.
Consider the slumped figure in the photo above: not a portrait of paranoia and danger, but rather resignation to the heft of everyday existence and the mundane duties and obligations piled before us like so many books and papers.
Consider the couple in love, unknown to us and to each other, echoing Magritte's famous image, but pushing the meme into the background of an ordinary park bench. The theme of humility underlined by the classic wet paint prank...
A man bends down to consider his feet, which have inconveniently disappeared into the floor and background.
We are where we are...not who. The commonplace and overall environment become our very selves.
Worth a look.