Dissimilation (Blue Star) presents a formation of Ku Klux Klan members—hooded, robed, and arranged in rows beneath a glowing cross. The image is stylized, but the threat is real. These figures are not distant—they are familiar. Neighbors. Colleagues. Friends. Their power lies in anonymity: the deliberate erasure of identity to move around the rules of the system.

The robes are not just garments—they are camouflage. A chosen disappearance that amplifies presence. The group does not stand outside nationalism—it reconfigures it. Personal belief becomes the new axis, cloaked in ritual and myth. The danger is not in spectacle—it’s in quiet allegiance. In the comfort of conformity that hides its violence.

The blue star marks the work’s position within the series—components of a chromatic structure that threads through Dissimilation, but without symbolic interpretation. What matters is the alignment: each canvas refracts the same idea from a different angle.

Within The Triumph of Romanticism, Dissimilation (Blue Star) reveals how identity can be weaponized through absence. It is a disappearance. A visual pledge to the power of concealment, where belief hides in plain sight.