Weathering, submersion and fragmentation undo the tidy containers that separate the constructed from the natural. As the boundaries break down there is a gradual contamination, a marking of one by the other. Over time it may be impossible to discern the blurred edges between the built and the natural. In this way a kind of camou age is achieved, as one realm takes on the qualities of the other, and two entities meld together. Camou age sets up a spatial relationship between an object and its context that resonates with the melancholy of the uncanny. Implied within camou age is a doubling, a mirroring of one by the other. Melting into its milieu an object, a person, one’s self, sacri ces the status of being an entity. Self-effacement resonates with the ideas of ‘weak’ architecture or ‘fragile’ landscape, where the muscularity of the formal gesture is traded for a more empathetic engagement, and an emotional tie is formed. While at once uncanny and strange in the effects of mirroring, camou age is also an assumption of intimacy.