…well…"camouflaged" implies that I was crawling around hiding things.  That’s not what I mean.  

Since many of these pictures begin with abstract work,I have the option of leaving nameless fragments and remnants lying around. I can stop working on an image while it still has one paw stuck in compositional play.

That allows more identifiable elements to crouch there and take their time to appear and be named. Pictures like this take time to be seen. They’re not about immediacy.

I also like observing how I can read the title “bird” and owls appear out of clots of spots. My ideas -- justified, interesting or not --  not only color, they absolutely determine what I perceive.   Different things appear and are named for different people. 

…I’m observing this not as something to first and foremost rebel against (it won’t work), but as a general condition of our very hallucinated "reality."