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2020 Journal_028

Item

Two notebook pages with text and photographs, titled "ILLUSIONS" and "Image and Word."
Title
2020 Journal_028
Alternative Title
2020 Journal
Creator
Karen Blessen
Date
2020
Description
The image displays two pages from an artist's notebook with a textured border resembling torn brown paper. On the left page, there is handwritten text under the heading "ILLUSIONS," along with an attached photograph labeled "I REMEMBER PITTSBURGH," showing a graffiti-marked wall and a street scene. The right page is titled "Image and Word," containing another piece of handwritten text on a cream background with a green border. Below it is a photograph of an open notebook with handwritten text.
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
Left Page: "ILLUSIONS This contemporary exhibit was up while I was there! Artist is DUANE MICHALS. Quite beautiful. I REMEMBER PITTSBURGH"

Right Page: "Image and Word I must write this now this very moment. While I am still foolish. Before I become sensible again, and know better, and while I am not afraid to say these things out loud. This"

(Text on the open notebook in the lower photograph is partially obscured and not fully legible.)
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