About the Artists:
The Camoufleurs is a collaboration between an artist (Lauren Ruth) and a scholar (Jason Clower) that seeks to reclaim the military science of camouflage as an art. In nature, camouflage disrupts a rival animal’s accustomed patterns of perception. As artists, they use the same principles of natural camouflage to thwart quotidian, stale patterns of perception and create mindfulness—noticing the novel within the habitual. Under their brushes, camouflage becomes a tool and practice of speculation and meditation.
The Camouflage Yijing:
The Yijing (formerly “I Ching”) or Book of Change is a classical Chinese system of oracular symbolism, roughly comparable to Western esotericism and Kabbalah. Like most of the Chinese tradition, the Yijing presumes that our cosmos is always changing, a kaleidoscopic riot of chaotic complexity that almost exceeds intelligibility, unless we have studied all the minute patterns of change. The Yijing offers a textbook for learning the phases of those subtle patterns of change, in hopes that we can manipulate them (or at least survive them).
At The Residency Project @ 880, the Camofleurs are formalizing and playing with protocols for “translating” these patterns of change systematically into camouflage-like patterns of color. Join us Sunday evening for an explanation, demonstration, and divination!
About the Event:
Space is limited. RSVP required. Go to www.theresidencyproject.org to register. This is an in-person, outdoor, socially distanced event. COVID-conscious guidelines will be in place (masks, hand sanitization, and social distancing required).
