PERSONAS “DESAPARECIDAS”

Este curioso artículo me llegó vía MAKE MAGAZINE y cuenta como una pintora holandesa de 44 años, Desiree Palmen, pinta cuidadosamente la ropa del modelo para que se confunda con un fondo determinado y este “desaparece” en el ambiente.

Una especie de “tromp l’oeil” moderno, que demuestra que la habilidad humana puede lograr cosas increíbles.

Spot the ‘invisible’ men and women in artist’s amazing photographs

In the natural world, the chameleon blends in perfectly with its background.In the urban jungle, Desiree Palmen decided to attempt the same visual deception.

And as these pictures show, the effect is amazing.

Miss Palmen, a 44-year-old Dutch artist, uses a method that requires a huge amount of effort and attention to detail.

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Desk deception: What appears to be a pile of papers is in fact a hunched figure

Blending library: Is that a pair of legs standing in front of book-laden shelves?

It takes hours for her to paint the suits. First she takes photographs of the scene then, back in the studio, she meticulously transfers the detail on to the cotton suit with acrylic paints.

The match of colour, texture, light and hue is extraordinarily accurate but the artist remains modest.

“It’s never perfect,” she said. “But when it works that’s enough for me. I like the fact people can see it’s a real person in a suit and not a fake digital image.”

She regularly displays her works on the streets of Jerusalem, Rotterdam and Berlin.

She has produced exterior and interior shots - in the latter she blends in with a bookcase, a desk and a flight of stairs.

Flight of fancy: Camouflage by the stairs (left), Alley illusion: A human turned to stone