June 27, 2025
Dotty Wassily Kandinsky, #1: Two Nine-Patches
Signifiers
hansel and gretel
trail bread crumbs behind them to
mark their way back home
i drive to qigong
class, no one there, wrong time, no!
so irritating
still, a crumb pointing
Home, this wee chance to practice
breathing with what is
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8 x 8″; watercolor and paint markers on paper
concentric circles and squares after Wassily Kandinsky
2025
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Notes About Poem and Painting:
• Haiku! I thrive on the challenge of the tight little constraints that force me to find the sweet spot of staying true to what I want to say within a prescribed format without compromising my message. I wrote a triple haiku today, three haiku of three lines each—a little verbal 9-patch quilt, if you will—each haiku with 17 syllables in a 5-7-5 pattern.
• I was away last week with my four sisters and our spouses for what we call “SisterFest.” Art journal and a few supplies packed, I decided to play with concentric circles and squares after Wassily Kandinsky’s such exercises. Very grounding and a lovely accompaniment to the nearly nonstop talk and laughter of SisterFest25. Not only that, but also—look—another 9-patch!
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11 responses to “Dotty Wassily Kandinsky, #1: Two Nine-Patches”
A nine patch haiku and a nine patch art piece! Stumbles on timing…and bread crumbs leading to the comforts of home. Home is my happy place.
Oh how I love this rendition of Kandinsky circles Dotty! I was just thinking about them not that long ago thinking it was time for circles. Your colors and patterns are right up my alley.
And here’s to sister gatherings! SisterFest is such an awesome name. I was just thinking about my sisters…it’s time for a Facetime chat!
The fact of ending up with two nine-patches at the same time was pleasingly serendipitous, gotta say. So, too, stumbles offering practice to open my little self to my Higher Self and Home. Thanks for your shared delight with the circles, colors, and patterns in my Kandinsky kapers. SisterFest25 was magnificent! Tomorrow begins eight days of FamFest25 with all its many magnificent moving pieces: our three children, their spouses, our grandchildren, and a nephew his wife—family all and fabulous all!
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I have long understood limitations to be multifaceted—sometimes feeling claustrophobic, often provided what feels like counterintuitive expansiveness.
I like your referring to my poem today as ‘stacked haiku.’ I laughed as myself as I stacked up the pieces, recognizing the irony of haiku’s limitations, my inability to state my insight in the prescribed 17 syllables, and my choosing to ‘cheat’ by stacking three haiku together!
Kandinsky circles and SisterFest made a great pairing : )
Simone, fun to know it’s so much fun to now see my circles after having always loved Kandinsky’s! I thoroughly enjoyed playing aroudn with this exercise. SisterFest25 was quite wonderful!
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