Abstract painting for me is a realm of pareidolia, not long after activating a picture plane with some paint, my mind begins to pick out the latent and hidden imagery there. Some paintings start with sketches and in those cases, the discovery of objects was made before painting. In others, the discovery is made in the process of painting itself. The challenge is not to spell out what I see too clearly in order to leave room for the viewer to discover what they may. Let them see what they see, but I see a story, thus, allegorical abstractions.