Interim Tangled Wires_004
Item
- Title
- Interim Tangled Wires_004
- Alternative Title
- Interim Tangled Wires and a Woodpecker on a Steel Pole
- Creator
- Karen Blessen
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- The page is part of a journal with a dark, textured cover. On the left side, there is a photograph of a garden with a tree and a path, framed by a black border. Above the photograph, there are small, colorful cut-out letters spelling "PARKS." Below the photograph, there are additional cut-out letters forming phrases like "degrees of possibility" and "the." On the right side, there is a handwritten poem with a beige background. The poem is titled "Let Me Walk in Beauty" and includes phrases such as "O Great Spirit," "whose voice I hear in the winds," and "I need your strength and wisdom." The page is adorned with various decorative elements, including small cut-out letters and a small photograph of a blue sky with clouds.
- 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
-
Let Me Walk in Beauty
O Great Spirit
whose voice I hear in
the winds
and whose breath
gives life to all the
worlds
hear me.
I am small and weak.
I need your strength and
wisdom.
Let me walk in beauty
and let my eyes ever
behold the red and
purple sunset.
Make my hands
protect
the things you have
made.
And my ears grow sharp - Rights
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