A series of transformative garments that evade the gaze of surveillance cameras taking cues from the ability of octopuses and frogs to camouflage, to blend into urban environments.
Not mere garments, but strategies of survival, of evolutionary gestures drawn from the deep intelligence of cephalopods and amphibians, beings that have spent millennia mastering the art of disappearing, blending and becoming other. In an age of relentless digital surveillance, in which cameras with artificial intelligence map, categorize, and discipline, these garments resist, evade, and transform.
Made entirely by 3D printing, these molecular tricks weave UV- and heat-reactive fabrics with bistable auxetic surfaces – fabrics that do not just stay on the body but respond, react and evolve. With the slightest change in temperature, with the simple pull of a thread, garments transform into colors, textures and shapes that dissolve into the urban landscape, speaking the language of camouflage learned by nonhuman relatives who have long since figured out how to escape the gaze of predators.
These garments, these changes, are both refuge and rebellion, a way of claiming possession of one’s image, presence, and data. They extend the body and act as an interface between species, between biological intelligence and technological insurrection. Wearing these garments, one does not simply disappear: one adapts, communicates, and plays with visibility and erasure on their own terms.