Liu Bolin, known for his perfectly camouflaged body paintings, has created a chilling piece that voices his concerns about China’s growing air pollution problem.

Body painting can sometimes be little more than an excuse to gawk at nude women (see the Times Square desnudas in New York, for instance), but Bolin is among the practioners elevating the medium to the status of high art. He is, after all, known as the “Human Chameleon.”

Bolin’s latest work, titled Dongji (Winter Solstice), draws much-needed attention to the issue of air pollution by using the thick smog to create stunning visuals, with human bodies fading into spindly trees and drab gray skies in the background.

The thought-provoking images have been released mere days after Beijing issued a “red alert” for air pollution; at that point, the capital had never before issued such an alert, but the December 18 warning was the second of the month. In response, schools closed and 2.5 million cars were taken off the streets.

Liu Bolin, Dongji (Winter Solstice), 2015. Photo by Kim Kyung Hoo, courtesy of the artist.

“[My work] is at a critical point,” Bolin told Business Insider.

In 2014, artist Liang Kegang criticized China’s notoriously poor air quality by facetiously auctioning a jar of fresh air from the French countryside.

Liu Bolin, Dongji (Winter Solstice), 2015. Photo by Kim Kyung Hoo, courtesy of the artist.

Air pollution in China is just one sign of climate change, a topic that has been widely addressed by artists in the past few years. There have been protests at Tate Modern in London, art-filled demonstrations in New York, and the HighWaterLine project, a blue chalk line created by Eve Mosher in Bristol thought to be the UK’s largest commissioned artwork.

Paris in particular has been a hot spot for art aimed at increasing awareness of climate change, from Shepard Fairey‘s giant sphere at the Eiffel Tower, to Olafur Eliasson‘s melting doomsday clock and Tomás Saraceno‘s solar powered spheres at the Grand Palais, among other works that coincided with the UN’s recent Paris Climate Summit.