Camouflage

Camouflage

Artist: Sandra Chaves
Title: Camouflage
Technique: Micron pen on paper (Pointillism and Hatching)
Dimensions (with frame): 23 cm × 32 cm
Edition: Unique piece from 2024
Original signed work | Includes certificate of authenticity

Description:

"Not everything you see is what it seems."

The zebra’s gaze emerges from contrast, like a well-guarded secret between light and shadow. Nature dressed her in paradoxes: visible and invisible, strong and fragile, wild and serene. The stripes are not just a pattern — they are armor, poetry, an ancestral language of survival and harmony.

Each black line upon the white is a silent choice of adaptation — a response to the chaos of the world. The beauty here is not merely aesthetic — it is strategic. She blends into the landscape, becoming invisible to hurried eyes, yet unforgettable to those who learn to see with the heart.

And so are we, on many days — painted within by stripes of courage and fear, of doubt and strength. We try to go unnoticed, while carrying entire worlds in our gaze.
Camouflage is not hiding — it is surviving with elegance.
It is knowing who we are, even when the world tries to erase our colors.
It is living art. It is silent resistance.