I know it's been an incredibly hard year for me and I haven't been able to send these newsletters out as much as I was like. Yet even during very hard times I'm always thinking about art and wanting to share some of my inner thoughts. Hard times can give you pause and make you think a little deeper about life and your art, which makes you better artist.

So today I am showing one of my last pieces that I did this year. It's called, Hidden in Plain Sight. You can see that there is a frog sitting in a pond on some lily pads. One can image that the frog thinks he's quite well hidden amongst the lily pads because he's green and the plants are green but you can you and I can both clearly see he's sitting there, so that's why I called it Hidden in Plain Sight but there is a deeper meaning to that title.

 

People can also hide in plain sight, and for similar reasons like this frog and other animals that camouflage themselves in nature. People can camouflage themselves in society and on social media. Like the frog they can hide in plain sight who they truly are, or truly want to be, for the similar reasons. For example self-preservation, hiding from predators or one can camouflage themselves to be a predator. There's two different sides or reasons to camouflage or hide yourself in society or in nature and it boils down to this in my point of view, to eat or to be eaten. Here in this piece of art, the frog is hiding, probably from predators and I while I was painting I thought to myself I can also find myself "hiding" sometimes behind my art or just blending into a crowd of people, hiding in plain sight, but just like this frog you can clearly see me, but can you really see me is the question?

 

Have you ever hidden a part of yourself?

Have you ever tried to blend in or camouflage yourself?

And why?