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$20
Item#: 2002SYR04
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Poem Inspiration Location
Windblown Willows Dance
poster information
Description
Windblown willows dance
at Onondaga's concert:
Frog songs by the Lake
Helen Hilbert, who died in mid September, was one of the Poster Project's most eager participants. She was a regular contributor of haiku to The Syracuse New Times annual Syr-Haikus contest and generous with her poetry on a number of other fronts.
She wrote birthday and get well poems for friends and family. She wrote and published a book of children's poetry, “Harvey The Happy Halibut and Other Tales.” And she played Mother Goose, reciting poetry and Mosther Goose stories, at the Skaneateles Dickens Festival and the Plainville Turkey Farm. She lived in Liverpool.
In early September, failing health put her at Saint Joseph's Hospital. She had a friend mail in her haiku submissions—a total of 11—shortly before she died.
I've never really done frogs before, but I thought they'd be fun. I usually do figurative work. But I may get into children's books, so I've been gearing more toward animals.
The poem says, “Frog songs by the lake.” So I did research on frogs, and they have that vocal sack that blows up. So I decided to do one with a vocal sack. And I just wanted to do a series of three. I'm pretty happy with them. I think I could have done a little more work on the background, spent more time on the water. But I had fun with the frogs.
I don't usually work in such bright colors. Maybe browns, oranges and blues. Not so much bright green, yellow and blue in one painting.