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Bea Camacho (b. 1983) is a Filipino performance artist best known for her performance pieces in which she crochets herself into a cocoon, including her 2005 piece Enclose. She has a BA summa cum laude in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard College and a Master in Architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is currently a design director at IDEO Shanghai.

Enclose is the first installation of a larger series of performance art. During Enclose, Camacho crocheted herself into a cocoon of red yarn for eleven hours without breaks until she was entirely concealed. This art piece touches on themes of comfort, security, distance, and fragility. Camacho attempts to convey the feelings of being safe and those of women in the art and museum world by obscuring her body.