hallelujah chorus
spring peepers, eyes popped,
inflating their balloon throats:
yippee! let’s do this!
yippee!
yippee!
yippee! yippee!
yippee! yippee!
yippee!
yippee! yippee!
yippee!
yippee! yippee!
yippee!
—dotty seiter
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6 x 6″; acrylic, watercolor and charcoal pencil, ink,
and collage on gessobord
Make Yourself at Home series
2026
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Notes about poem and painting:
• “hallelujah chorus” is a haiku that celebrates the small chorus frogs known as peepers that make themselves known as heralds of spring in the eastern part of the United States—to the great excitement of both humans and the frogs themselves. This is when the males set up a distinctive peeping and the females spawn their eggs, all to start a new generation on the way to becoming Pseudacris crucifer.
• On This Earth at This Moment is a distinct departure from the house images that have thus far taken up real estate in my current Make Yourself at Home series, a series that continues to be on its way to becoming whatever the heck it will become! On This Earth was an experiment—I started with a 2015 6×6″ acrylic painting on gessobord that I had subsequently painted over in 2021 with chaos layers. With the old iterations as a base, I used a photo reference taken recently in Newburyport, MA, to make an acrylic painting on sandwich wrap which I then collaged onto the gessobord. By responding to whatever emerged, one step after another—many of which dismayed me, this piece became a painting of surprising visual interest to me.
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