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Process!
It’s time for a process post here at dotty seiter: now playing. I’m on artist Amanda Evanston’s mailing list and, as part of a New Year’s Day email, she included the link to a creative exercise she’s done for several years, usually sometime early in January. I’m in the process of following the steps she… Continue reading
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Wrapping Up 2024
As has been the case for the past 2-3 years, I was inspired again this year to pull a 12 x 12″ sheet of Dixie All Purpose Food Wrap from my seemingly endless stash so I could create hand-painted wrapping paper to provide visual pizzazz to two money gifts. Satisfying last-minute venture partway through Christmas… Continue reading
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Bookmarking Joy in December, 7
Way back in the day, year after year, I baked cookies, cookies, cookies for sharing during the Christmas season. Now, it seems, I “bake” bookmarks, bookmarks, bookmarks. Back in the day, a new friend was likely to receive a plate of cookies in December. Now, a new friend just might receive a bookmark instead. Bookmark… Continue reading
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Bookmarking Joy in December, 6
from a place in my heart, a signal to my hands:putter joyfully! Continue reading
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Bookmarking Joy in December, 5
My daughter Meg informed me many years ago that the image she carries of me in her mind is of my head’s moving through space of its own volition, trailing my body behind it and my toes’ dragging along barely touching the ground. Enter qigong! I practice it both in a wonderful class on Monday… Continue reading
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Bookmarking Joy in December, 4
It is my great grand good fortune to participate in a yoga class that nourishes me week after week, a class I bumped into in the unlikeliest of ways. That story: had a mammogram a few years back. Results not definitive. Had to have a repeat done at a different facility. Met afterwards with ‘my’… Continue reading
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Bookmarking Joy in December, 3
I give free rein tomy inner horse—gallop! go!wherever you choose! Continue reading
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Bookmarking Joy in December, 2
cell after cell flowsto apical meristemto become a leaf. Continue reading
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Bookmarking Joy in December, 1
We are now reduced to one significant choice. We can take our stand either on the side of life or on the side of death. This will never be presented to us as one large and final choice, but only as a succession of small choices, continuing to the seventh and the seven-hundredth generation. Because… Continue reading
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Deep Inside
walk deep inside the ordinary sacred paint decisions with me 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 creative practice.
I post my paintings and their stories. The good, the bad, the ugly.
In 2025 I begin writing poetry and include a poem and painting in each post.
My compass points: shake hands with fear, be playful, get messy, trust my gut.
