 Modern artists such as Ian Hamilton Finlay have used camouflage to reflect on war . His 1973 <unk> of a tank camouflaged in a leaf pattern , Arcadia , is described by the Tate as drawing " an ironic parallel between this idea of a natural paradise and the camouflage patterns on a tank " . The title refers to the Utopian Arcadia of poetry and art , and the memento mori Latin phrase Et in Arcadia ego which recurs in Hamilton Finlay 's work . In science fiction , Camouflage is a novel about shapeshifting alien beings by Joe Haldeman . The word is used more figuratively in works of literature such as <unk> Frank 's collection of stories of love and loss , A Brief History of Camouflage . 
