The interconnectedness that pattern provides across the fields of biological camouflage, the environment, textiles and protesters’ collective motifs is the basis of this new series of works by Jemima Wyman for COLA 25 at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. Wyman has made a series of four large-scale textile works and two smaller photographic-based works. The works were created using improvisational screen-printing techniques, custom textile printing, and wallpaper vinyl. Returning to her MAS archive (started in 2008, a collection of online images of protesters using camouflage, including masking, patterned textiles, and smoke), she pulled images related to Climate Crisis protests, where hand-painted motifs and blue were present. One example of this in the exhibition is Rise and fall and rise…(unabridged title is 354 words) a 366 × 518cm work of custom screen printed textiles chronicling different motifs of water used in global Climate Crisis protests, including recent protests related to toxic waste from the recent fires in Los Angeles that Wyman participated in, all events are listed in the title. These images and others were the foundation for the various works, along with an interest in what the protesters are advocating for: a future hope that connects a collective human wish with water, earth, animals and air. The protesters often paint themselves with blue-green earth, tears, eyes on their hands, or as animals. There is a transformative psychedelic feel to the protesters' choices of painterly marks, and their wishes for our current moment of polycrisis. We are in an unsettling time of polycrisis whereby one cannot predict the pattern of knock-on effects from one crisis to the next.