Interim Tangled Wires_012
Item
- Title
- Interim Tangled Wires_012
- Alternative Title
- Interim Tangled Wires and a Woodpecker on a Steel Pole
- Creator
- Karen Blessen
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- The image shows a spiral-bound journal with two pages. The left page has a photograph of a woman at the top and handwritten text discussing a phone call to a person named Candy. The right page has a photograph of a woman at the top and handwritten text about Candy's mother, Donna, and her condition. The pages are decorated with torn paper and a small photograph of a family at the bottom of the right page.
- 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
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Left Page:
what to do when one gets up in the
morning
This morning, I called Candy. She answered and sounded strained. She said she was with her Mom and she was expected to pass away any minute. Which she did - 3 minutes later. Candy called me later to tell me
Right Page:
that her Mom was gone. She sounded calm and glad that she was able to be with her.
Her Mom, Donna, lost her own Mom when she was only 2 years old. Donna had told Candy that she wanted to see her Mom. Donna was showing signs of dementia those last few years.
I've known Donna since I was a little girl. Like Edythe, Bombie, and Marjorie. Candy, she was another good Mom to me. - Rights
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