Many of Luangwa's lagoons are covered during the wet season with a plant known as Nile Cabbage -- favorite places for hippos to spend the hot African summer days. This image is rich in abstraction and incongruity. I use the cabbage as an abstracting device to incongruously disguise the hippos. It is an image rich in color and unfamiliar textures, which complement the incongruity of seeing a hippo’s head detached from its body. A layer of green powder clings to the forehead of this hippo, almost as if it was a cosmetic. A second submerged hippo adds context. It almost seems as if these enormous animals are playing hide and seek with us. Actually, they are merely trying to keep as cool they can. Once again, less is more. The hippo is one of the largest mammals on earth. Yet these are barely revealed to us.