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2016 – 2017 / 3 Months / Bachelor Thesis Project / ENSCI – Les Ateliers / Paris

An interplay of showing and hiding. A Camouflage pattern is able to point out or hide, create optical Illusions or dissimulate an object entirely. The dissolution of the borders between fore- and background enables the beholder to play with optical illusion and constitutes new forms of gestalt perception. This raises the question of the potential applications of the active principle in a domestic Environment. An application that goes beyond the ornamental and aspires a functional significance. Within my bachelor thesis, I initially investigated the phenomenology of optical Camouflage in the interaction of visibility and invisibility. As a result of my practical research, I developed multiple prototypes and a viable Camouflage pattern with the aid of Processing. Within the setting of Home, a free-floating sideboard constitutes a background, a stage where a culvert, a screen, a document folder and a pocket emptier can be freely positioned and combined.

Together they enable the viewer to present objects of aesthetic value or hide less attractive items. Thereby the act of Camouflage reaches a new meaning. It transforms into an active and deliberate activity – an interplay of showing and hiding.