artist at play
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Island Entertainments
Whidbey Island Center for the Arts countless practice hours,days, weeks, years. Django guitar,harmonica, wow. —dotty seiter ===== ===== Notes about poem and art:• “Whidbey” celebrates a world-class musical performance by Antoine Boyer and Yeore Kim as part of DjangoFest NW 2025. Totally knocked our socks off.• A Moment celebrates the meditative joy of playing with Continue reading
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A Wednesday in September
Perfect Pacific Northwest Vacation Day hike the high bluff trail,walk the beach beneath, cozyup in fleece to nap —dotty seiter ===== ===== Notes about poem and art:• “Perfect,” with a mere seventeen syllables, puts me right back on Whidbey Island on the bluff, on the beach, in that fleece blanket. • At Ease took considerable Continue reading
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D&D Getaway
Daybreak tide out beach exposedquiet water in the soundgood morning whidbey —dotty seiter ===== ===== Notes about poem and art:• “Daybreak” captures in a few syllables the feeling of waking to our first dawn on Whidbey Island in September in a rented home right at the water’s edge.• Dry Footfalls is my color swatch memento Continue reading
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Off the Ferry
Buonissimo! pepper, hummus, andpeach picnic at payless foods on whidbey island —dotty seiter ===== ===== Notes about poem and art:• “Buonissimo!” reflects the fun of an impromptu solution to getting lunch on arrival day on Whidbey Island. Gluten free, inexpensive, tables and water fountain at hand, and we had to shop for groceries anyway. Worked for Continue reading
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Nothing New Under the Sun
Steal Like an Artist in the limitless-ness of not knowing—yay forcopy-cat inspo! —dotty seiter ===== ===== Notes about poem and art:• Traditional haiku often uses natural imagery and seasonal references to capture a moment. The form aims to freeze a fleeting moment in time, creating a picture in the reader’s mind. No seasonal references in “Steal,” Continue reading
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On the Scene in West Seattle
Could Be No Happier at home, though away,coffeehouse, though not—scott, alisa, music, joy —dotty seiter ===== ===== Notes about poem and art:• “Could Be” could be considered a haiku since it is a poem of 17 syllables in three lines, but it could also be considered not-quite-a-haiku because the syllable pattern is 5, 5, 7 Continue reading
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Can You Imagine Us?
Old Friends, Sharing a Park Bench (Not Entirely) Quietly from miss bradley’s homeroom to laurelhurst park paths—laughing all the way —dotty seiter ===== ===== Notes on poem and art:• With “Old Friends” I elected to compose a haiku in lines of 7, 5, and 5 syllables instead of the more traditional 5, 7, 5 pattern. Continue reading
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Winging West
What They Didn’t Tell Her in the Flight Info in the Seatback Pocket mama and baby‘side her; phantom milk let-downas they fly the skies —dotty seiter ===== ===== Notes about poem and art:• I decided to aim for a haiku per day while we traveled. “What They Didn’t” was my first. I loved having 3-month-old Continue reading
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Passages
The Knowing she remembers a passagefrom a william faulkner novel she read in college, thoughwhich novel she could notnow tell you.of what significance to the unfolding story was this passage?that also she does not recall,only that it caught her attentionenough for her to write about the passageat some length and in some detailin a senior Continue reading
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Random Acts of Art, #3
From Fullness i set up my travel studio this morning in our blackwater falls state park cabin in west virginia shortly after learning that my sister-in-law linda died last night. a photo reference from a predawn walk wraps me in a hug, nudges me to paintfrom the fullness of my heart—quickly, unhesitatingly, gesturally—phthalo blue, payne’s gray, and Continue reading
My Story
In 2014, I grab an unexpected opportunity to paint.
To make art.
I get hooked.
In 2015 I start a blog—a diary of my life as an artist.
I post my paintings and their stories. The good, the bad, the ugly.
My compass points: bust through fear, be playful, get messy, trust my gut.
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