firestorm and mayhem
in politics, but this too:
birdsong before dawn.
—dotty seiter
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4 x 4.25″; acryilic, ink, watercolor pencil, and collage on paper
Make Yourself at Home series
2026
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Notes about poem and art:
• “firestorm” began as a firestorm of high-speed inrushing winds of verbiage that fueled flames relentlessly until haiku firefighters came to the rescue and brought everything under control with directed attention.
• A Nice Ordinary isn’t at all what I had in mind when I headed to my studio, but a collection of old paintings and other paper scraps caught my eye, and my hands ran with what my eye spied. When I developed my Let’s Face It Together series, I experimented a bit and landed on bringing to life ‘found faces’ in old neurographic doodles. Similarly, after playing with several pieces in my Make Yourself at Home series, I seem in this piece to have landed on building houses on ‘found real estate,’ again in old work. To wit, several years ago while on vacation in the mountains of West Virginia, I tried my hand at loose scribbled and painted designs in a grid format. I didn’t fall in love with the results, but now that I’ve cut the grid into its parts I’ve directed my attention in a new way, and I see those parts in a new light, developing quite an affection for this first updated piece of the grid.
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