The qualities of camouflaging: that relation of man's workmanship to his perception of the world : this being an account of the experiences of the Sonoma County Camouflaging Society including a historie-geographie and field notes
"Camouflaging--detecting and making visible those qualities that seem most salient--has been going on as long as art-making. In Sonoma County, the nature of our camouflaging experience will be to detect and select what to reveal of our study environment--walking around, observing, noting what we expected to notice. After a time we'll start shedding labels--"trees," "grass." Labels won't help us to notice that trees have an early morning quickness, that the afternoon wind turns a field of grass into a swaying wave. Until we know what we don't want, we can't get at what we do. A work of art can't be everything. Artists and camouflagists select, figure out what not to do. In our camouflaging study we aren't breaking away from expectancies and labels all at once. When the color and light of our environment have become one with us, when we've questioned and shared till we work as one--then we may glimpse the allusiveness of man. We may again be ready to erect--tentatively."--Excerpted from the introduction
Print Book, English, [©1971]
[Santa Rosa Junior College Graphic Arts Dept.], [Santa Rosa, Calif.], [©1971]