haiku
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Imaginary Gift
the painter, bookmarking figures chiseled fromamorphous chaos layersand negative space —dotty seiter ===== ===== Notes on poem and art:• “bookmarking” is a haiku touching on the process I followed to create this figure painting.• Wanting to get my artist friend Sylvia an art book to celebrate her interest in exploring figure painting, I painted a… Continue reading
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Switching Gears
Let’s Face It though i sure do lovepredictable routines, it’s time to shake things up! —dotty seiter ===== ===== Notes about poem and art:• “Let’s Face It” is a haiku alluding to my intention to switch gears after creating a series of 35 color-swatches painted over the past few months of 2025. • Is Kindergarten… Continue reading
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Hiking Beside, Not Kayaking In
Deception Pass, Whidbey Island narrow channel. fierce tides force whirling eddies, whitefroth a bright blessing —dotty seiter ===== ===== Notes about poem and art:• “Deception” is a haiku that places me right back on the high bridge that spans Deception Pass where we watched two kayakers contending with the force of the outgoing tide. Better… 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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A Tiny Pocket
Fun-Loving snowbird flamingoart in the bathroom, a laughwhere least expected —dotty seiter ===== ===== Notes about poem and art:• “Fun-Loving” is a tiny playful haiku about a sizable poster that was way fun to order as a 40th-birthday gift for someone whose bathroom makes a terrific gallery for lighthearted and unexpected whimsy.• An analogous colors… Continue reading
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And the Livin’ Is Easy
Summer Matins first light finds its waythrough my translucent eyelidsvia catbird’s throat —dotty seiter === ===== Notes about poem and art:• I wrote “Summer” sixteen years ago when I committed myself to composing what turned out to be about fifteen haiku as part of a self-directed project to focus on what was right in front… Continue reading
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If I Am Very Still
Thrumming With Energy waiting for clearanceto land, poems circling ina holding pattern —dotty seiter ===== ===== Notes about poem and art: • I enjoy working with the haiku form, having something I wish to say and 17 syllables at my disposal with which to say it; three lines—of 5 syllables, then 7, then 5. •… 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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