Camouflage Art as Political Protest: Meet China's Lin Bolin

This is very interesting indeed (scroll down, as the post discusses several artists before Lin). A bit about the artist:

Liu Bolin’s art is about camouflaging himself as a means of political protest in his own country. His political protest against the Chinese government is a statement against repression (the authorities shut down his studio in 2005). He has written that, in nature, many animals, insects and creatures have the ability to alter and adapt their physical appearance to their surroundings. This is a defensive measure to protect themselves from predators.

Chinese artist Liu Bolin desires to survive in a country that is a predator to him. Creatively, he is saying, “I must blend in to survive, I cannot be different.” His art is telling the western world about the repressive state in which he attempts to survive.

And now, take a look at a sample of Lin Bolin's political art:

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bulletin Board
(with apologies to James Joyce)

There's a lot of pro-China cheerleading going on (including some truly execrable nonsense from Western so-called "elites" like this outstanding idiot). But please spare a thought for the Chinese dissidents who long to be free.