“It always seemed to me that bodies were able to disappear within their environment. My goal was to make them disappear altogether," he says, explaining his desire to try out camouflage body painting for himself. Now, I’m sitting in the middle of the grass on a mountain lake, just a few metres from Johannes as I watch him and the naked model before us. The model stands before him shivering. There is a chill in the air. On the other side of the lake there is snow. The wind blows through my jumper and casts Johannes’ hair about in spite of his white hairband. His paint and brushes are at his side. The painting will have to go quickly. He moves about the model, a brush stroke over her breast, stepping back, then stroke for stroke the model seems to disappear into the environment. As he told me, nature is his passion.

The model stands motionless, though she continues to shiver. With paint-covered hands Johannes reaches for the camera. Things have to happen quickly now before the reflection of the water changes or the next cloud passes by. And then I hear the quiet ‘click’.

The model has become one with the breathtaking panorama. Johannes is right: In order to see something special, you only have to look closely. “My current profession unites everything that I ever wanted from life. Once, he was unsure how to unite his many talents and now he notices, piece by piece, that his life has become a complete work of art. It’s like a colourful puzzle and perhaps one day it all fit together, like his works of art in which it’s hard to tell where the person ends and nature begins.