Notes on the theme: Ruth van Beek and Vanessa Woods obscure parts of one image with another, bringing playful mystery to forms reinvented through concealment. Noah Doely uses a puzzle (a process of searching for the obvious) to depict one of the greatest cosmic acts of plain hiding: an eclipse.

Dan Estabrook and Lezley Saar remind us that vision is also interpretation as we see and are seen with far more than just our eyes. The woman in Libby Black’s drawing after a Berenice Abbott photo wears not one mask but two, but is she hiding or revealing herself? Adam Chin asks an AI image generator to render a speculative picture of two people kissing from a real one where they are not, manifesting ghosts from digital ether.

Turning to the natural world, Binh Danh references his Vietnamese heritage in chlorophyll prints of military camouflage printed on real leaves. Anaïs Tondeur makes photograms of radioactive plants from Chernobyl, finding a way to visualize the vast hidden impacts of nuclear technology through humble plant specimens. Finally, Johnnie Chatman considers the invisibility of Black bodies in public American lands through self portraits where he is at once a clear silhouette and a black void. A form hiding in plain sight.