clipped from: www.dailymail.co.uk In the urban jungle, Desiree Palmen decided to attempt the same visual deception.
Miss Palmen, a 44-year-old Dutch artist, uses a method that requires a huge amount of effort and attention to detail.
She makes cotton suits and paints the camouflage on by hand, painstakingly matching it to the chosen background. Either she or a model then poses in the suit in the chosen place.
The scenes are photographed and filmed and then put on display.
"People always react strongly when they see my work," she said.
Desk deception: What appears to be a pile of papers is in fact a hunched figure
Blending library: Is that a pair of legs standing in front of book-laden shelves?
Flight of fancy: Camouflage by the stairs (left), Alley illusion: A human turned to stone