March 03, 2008

Camouflage

Posted by apostropher

Via Wooster Collective, this is so very cool.

"Miss Palmen, a 44-year-old Dutch artist, uses a method that requires a huge amount of effort and attention to detail. She makes cotton suits and paints the camouflage on by hand, painstakingly matching it to the chosen background. Either she or a model then poses in the suit in the chosen place. The scenes are photographed and filmed and then put on display."

hiddentalent.jpg

More at the link and at the artist's website.
Comments
1

How are we supposed to evaluate the effectiveness of these suits when all they show us in the photos is the background? Why didn't they pose someone wearing the suit in front of the background?

Posted by: Mt/ch M/lls at March 3, 2008 02:37 PM
2

Artists are an inscrutable bunch, M/tch.

Posted by: apostropher at March 3, 2008 02:44 PM
3

Um, she's Dutch, not Asian, apo.

Racist.

Posted by: M/tch M/lls at March 3, 2008 03:03 PM
4

This is a great picture -- the others, too -- but I'm troubled by the question of where her head could be.

Posted by: Clownæsthesiologist at March 3, 2008 10:19 PM
5

4: She's the type to always have her head in books.

Posted by: M/tch M/lls at March 4, 2008 07:57 AM
6

The only way this could be cooler is if it were done with body paint.

Posted by: My Alter Ego at March 4, 2008 08:38 AM
7

OT, I don't think the NYT thought this headline all the way through.

Posted by: Gaijin Biker at March 5, 2008 09:18 AM
8

oh i found her head, it's on the second shelve

Posted by: read at March 5, 2008 10:25 AM
9

By the way, apo, you should mix yerself up a pint or two of this.

Posted by: My Alter Ego at March 5, 2008 10:37 AM
10

Absolutely Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Taka Chanaiwa at March 5, 2008 01:57 PM
11

shelf, now i'm not sure, she is decapitated by photoshop

Posted by: read at March 6, 2008 10:55 AM
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