2020 Journal_020
Item
- Title
- 2020 Journal_020
- Alternative Title
- 2020 Journal
- Creator
- Karen Blessen
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- The image shows an open book with two pages visible. The left page features an aged paper with an engraving of a finely dressed woman holding a quill, gazing thoughtfully to the side. The edges of the page are slightly torn and uneven. Below the engraving is handwritten text in black ink. The right page displays a collage of photographs and illustrations, including a brightly colored illustration of a stylized, spotted feline with an elongated body, set above geometric red and pink shapes. There are also several overlapping photographs, one depicting a sepia-toned building facade. Handwritten text is present below the illustrations
- Dates Completed
- January 1, 2020 - January 30, 2020
- Keywords
- 2020; New decade; Chart; Road metaphor; Bricks; Mortar; Rest stops; Dangers; Human body; Mortality; Poignancy; Connections; Sadness; Grief; Aging; Australia fires; Horror of 2020; $81,000 grant; Trust for Public Land; Texas Trees Foundation; Jonathan McNulty; David McNulty; Murder; Wounds; Baby elephants; Dream; “You are unstoppable”; NYC trip; FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OF WOMEN’S WORK; Lisa Unger Baskin Collection; Grolier Club; NYC libraries; Book display; Collections; Researchers; Lisa Unger Baskin; Magical day; Well being; New York Public Library; J.D. Salinger exhibit; Made at NYPL exhibit; Wallace Shawn; Artifact display; Book binding; Women in France; Inexplicable well being; Wave not the water; Broadway; Central vein; Long leaf; Walking; Orthopedic surgeries; Morgan Library; Duane Michals; Word and Image; NYPL; Animal skin fortune; Met Breuer; Home is a Foreign Place; Jody Shields; Metropolitan Museum; Friday evening; Cafe Sabarsky; Free man in Paris; Recollection; Recognition of freedom; Responsibility; Central Park; Beacon Hotel; Room with a view; Magic; Best Small Garden award; Dallas
- Transcription
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Left Page: "Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston. Published according to Act of Parliament Sept 1st 1773 by Archd. Bell. Bookseller No.8 near the Saracens Head Aldgate."
Handwritten below engraving: "As I looked at the exhibit, my interest was as much in HOW pieces were displayed as in WHAT they were and WHO did them."
Right Page: "The displays contextualized the artifacts." - Rights
- To inquire about usage, please contact Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. These images are for educational use only. Not all images are available for publication.
- Is Part Of
- 2020 Journal
- Relation
- Image Gallery