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Process! #7

On my nightstand:

Having stuff around
makes you feel ready for anything.
That’s something
you either understand
or you don’t.
—Kenneth M. Cadow, Gather (fabulous YA novel!)

On my easel:

Well, I surely have stuff around in my studio. My eyes land on my stash of hand-painted collage paper; my hands grab a sheet of collage paper painted on Dixie All Purpose Food Wrap; next thing I know I’m tearing and gluing.

Seems like more than a little bit of a sort of compositional structure, whatd’ya think, Amanda?

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8 responses to “Process! #7”

  1. Joyful Puttering Avatar
    Joyful Puttering

    Oh my….I totally understand!!!

    And just when I thought your piece couldn’t get any better…it did! Dixie and Dotty do it again!

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      Dotty Seiter

      MaryAnn! I had you fully in mind as I shared the excerpt from Cadow’s novel, knowing you’d understand!

      Dixie and Dotty! Thanks for the tip of the hat : )

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    Simone

    Absolutely love it! A bit Cy Twomblish!

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      Dotty Seiter

      Happy to hear my moving forward hasn’t left your delight in this piece behind, Simone! Thank you for your mention of Cy Twombly—you’ve got my muse lighting up with interest : )

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    lolajovan

    i just love seeing your process! The push and pull, adding and obliterating – feels like watching ocean waves reconstructing the beach with one tide, then adjusting it with another. The freedom! The in-the-momentness! Xo

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    1. Dotty Seiter Avatar
      Dotty Seiter
      1. You made it past the comment-blocking gremlins, Lola! What sorcery did you use? or are we, as ever, at the mercy of the tides?
      2. Your allusion to tides is SO helpful and apt. I still remember the first time the edge of a hurricane blew through at the beach where we spent a few weeks for each of a few summers. I was probably 10 the year of the hurricane. I woke up the next morning and … where was the beach I knew??? Reshaped beyond my recognition! Your description above is SO welcome, encouraging me as it does to keep playing, to keep letting whatever moves in move in! Thank you!

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    carolee36

    So glad you edited some out! Much stronger. Miss the flowers!

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    1. Dotty Seiter Avatar
      Dotty Seiter

      I really went to town editing and editing this piece! And your comment tells the heart of the story—editing out can make a piece stronger … at the same time that we miss what has been edited out!

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