Video: Urban Camouflage by Joshua Callaghan
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Probably, each of us at least once thought about how garbage cans, transformer boxes and other necessary, but extremely unsightly structures do not fit into city landscapes. Painted in dull colors, they do not add beauty to the streets and positive mood for passers-by. American Joshua Callaghan thought about what can be done with this problem and came to a very simple conclusion: so that the tanks and booths do not spoil the general landscape, you need to make them … invisible!
Of course, Joshua Callaghan is not a wizard and he does not have an invisibility hat. Everything is much simpler. The artist took a camera in his hands and photographed the cityscapes behind the unsightly structures. The author printed the obtained pictures in the required scale and pasted them over objects that, in his opinion, did not fit into the general landscape. The result was quite interesting: the boxes themselves, of course, did not disappear anywhere, but they seemed to “hide”.
Joshua Callaghan has laminated the photographs that are papered over city objects to protect them from rain and burnout. “It is interesting to observe how over time everything around these boxes changes - and the images pasted on them remain unchanged,” says the author of the project.
Of course, the author's idea only works under certain conditions. If you look at "hidden" objects at the wrong angle, from a height or too close a distance; if weather conditions, lighting, or even more so the seasons change, then the whole illusion will disappear. But in any case, trash cans "camouflaged" by Joshua Callaghan look much more attractive than their gray counterparts.
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