Camouflage
Mixt medium, on canvas, 127 x 106 cm (50 x 42 inches) unframed
Camouflage emerged from an experimental process involving cycles of water layering and drying. Through this quiet alchemy, an unexpected figure appeared: the outline of a deer—ghostlike, barely visible, as if rising of its own accord from the surface. The instinct to hide it, to protect its delicate presence, became the very impulse behind the piece.
The resulting black-and-white landscape evokes an early spring field stretching into the distance. In the foreground, a pool of water divides the scene: on one side, a wooded area rendered with almost documentary clarity; on the other, pure abstraction—rectangular forms that echo memory, rhythm, or fragmented perception. The two blend into one another until boundaries dissolve and the deer vanishes into its environment.
In the context of Proof of Life, Camouflage becomes a meditation on subtle survival—on the fragile traces of being that persist quietly, almost invisibly. The deer, though hidden, affirms its existence through presence alone. The landscape, half-seen and half-imagined, reflects the way life continues in stillness, in concealment, in the tension between disappearance and persistence.
This piece asks: what do we overlook in our rush to see clearly? What lives, vibrates, and endures—just beneath the surface—waiting to be noticed?