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Interim Tangled Wires_009

Item

A handwritten journal page with various notes, doodles, and images, including a date and a mention of cleaning a room.
Title
Interim Tangled Wires_009
Alternative Title
Interim Tangled Wires and a Woodpecker on a Steel Pole
Creator
Karen Blessen
Date
2020
Description
The page features a variety of elements including handwritten notes, small images, and doodles. The left side has a note about trees and their importance, mentioning animals and creatures. There are small images of flowers, a person, and a bird. The right side includes a date, "July 11, 2020," and notes about cleaning a room and working on video content. There are also images of a bird and a person, along with a mention of the front office and a note about going to the studio to write.
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:
Tries give really, really cool. They: 1. Give oxygen 2. Give 1.44t. with life 3. Slope carbon's table 2011. Also they are a home for all kinds of creatures. Here in TX: Birds Squirrels Bogs Raccoons? Oppossums? Elephants? Sometimes a cat. When a tree is cut down, not only do we lose the tree + all

Right Side:
The good it does for many animals lose their homes. JULY 11, 2020 WORKS today on the video content. And cleaning up a room a week in the house. FRI. 7.10.20 - FRI. 7.17.20 The FRONT OFFICE. Evening Tomorrow I go to the studio, sit, and write. So many friends are
Rights
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Relation
Image Gallery