Concealment is No Place to Hide

I first stumbled across the work of Liu Bolin around a year ago, but it's great to finally see this talented artists works cropping on and garnering the acclaim it clearly deserves.

The image above is from the series 'Camouflage', part of a compelling body of work in which the Chinese artist explores notions of instinct and survival.

Post-Olympics, it will be interesting to see if the 'rest' of the world continues its interesting in the notion of survival in modern China, or if we'll simply turn the other cheek to a problem that is intimidatingly vast. These beautiful images however, urge us to seek the unseen and forgotten, and hear their silenced cries.

Best Served Cold

Dispassionate, cynical, and cold, Dominique nurses a masochistic streak. An ardent idealist, she observes Greek sculpture, the music of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, and she understands the human potential. Dominique recognizes man’s capacity for achievement, and this is the only thing she loves. Because she reveres man at his highest and best, she necessarily loathes most members of the human race, who fall below man’s potential.