Hiding in perspective
March 20th, 2006 by Monkey 
Speaking of camouflage, you could probably add the photography of dutch artist Desiree Palmen to Gravestmor’s ‘Notes on the Denial of Perspective‘. Clothing as facade, or, the fashion encryption of cloak space. The result is a kind of inflected flatness that allows the subject to squat impercetibly in the open without being seen.
I can picture some architecturally intuitive villain lurking in the backgrounds of a graphic novel this way. Part furtive nomad, part fashion-dependent stalker, part agoraphobic spatial mime, he’s obsessed with the angles and depths of the science of perspective, so he can easily hide out in an innocuous corner or up against an object in plain view. Like a geometric chameleon or something, he trespasses the toggle of surveilled space as if it were a kind of urban performance art, (ironically meant to avert the audience’s gaze), slipping in and out of (in)visibility through self-framed poses, strategic rest spots, choreographed moments situtated in the blind spots of observed spatial indifference.
(Found at Geisha asobi blog)
Gravestmor: Notes on the Denial of Perspective 01 & 02
Subtopia: Our favorite color camouflage
Originally from Subtopia on March 19, 2006, 9:31pm
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