Interim Tangled Wires_003

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A journal page with handwritten text and a photograph of a sky with clouds and trees.

Title: Interim Tangled Wires_003
Alternative Title: Interim Tangled Wires and a Woodpecker on a Steel Pole
Creator: Karen Blessen
Date: 2020
Description: The page features a photograph of a sky with scattered clouds and a few trees in the background. The left side of the page has handwritten text with phrases like "His journal began as an in-between JOURNAL - before starting one tentatively called SOME THING BEAUTIFUL. Then, as always, came digressions. The question of parent/child responsibilities. Then THE OPPOSITE OF BEAUTY Destruction of nature." The right side of the page has a series of white rectangles with black text that reads "IT CAME TO BE ABOUT TREES."
Identifier: 003_070620-081620_interim_tangled_wires
Dates Completed: July 6, 2020 - August 16, 2020
Keywords: Tangled wires; Woodpecker; Trees; Beauty; Destruction of nature; Parent-child responsibilities; Let Me Walk in Beauty; Lakota Sioux; Chief Yellow Lark; Public Parks; Trust for Public Land; Creative process; Flowers; Loss; Black veil collage; Covid-19; Candy Dickenson Becher; Drop metaphor; Gretchen Dykstra; Double mastectomy; Dream of parents; Breast cancer; God laughs at plans; 29 Pieces planning; Cardinals; Cardinal collages; Sibyl Dana Reynolds; Institutional breakdowns; BLM; BLM collage; Parental meditations; Potatoes and pride; Life stages; Gretchen’s kimono; Friendships; Past and present; Neighbor tree dispute; Manifest or dissolve; Contagious grace; Commodification of beauty
Transcription: Left Side:
His journal began as an in-between JOURNAL - before starting one tentatively called SOME THING BEAUTIFUL. Then, as always, came digressions. The question of parent/child responsibilities. Then THE OPPOSITE OF BEAUTY Destruction of nature.

Right Side:
IT
CAME
TO BE
ABOUT
TREES
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Is Part Of: Interim Tangled Wires and a Woodpecker on a Steel Pole
Relation: Image Gallery