Hardy Blechman lends his pen to Gavin Turks forthcoming art encyclopedia with an essay entitled “This is not a story about the military”, detailing the nuances of camouflage and its presence in todays society.
The essay was also included with Turk’s waxwork entitled “Somebody’s Son”.
In 1909, when the Victorian naturalist and painter Abbott H. Thayer published his observations about concealment in nature, it’s fairly certain he had no idea what he was starting. It was the first comprehensive catalogue of the many camouflage techniques employed in the natural world, and Thayer argued that nature was acting as an artist, creating optical effects with colour and light.
To read the essay in full click here and scroll down to ‘ESSAYS’.