Interim Tangled Wires_014
Item
- Title
- Interim Tangled Wires_014
- Alternative Title
- Interim Tangled Wires and a Woodpecker on a Steel Pole
- Creator
- Karen Blessen
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- The image shows an open spiral-bound notebook with handwritten entries. The left page is dated "July 12, 2020," and includes notes about writing a script, taking an hour to do so, and writing 10 lines, each 6 minutes long. The right page is dated "July 18, 2020," and contains a sketch of a figure holding a leaf, along with notes about communication and inspiration. The bottom of the right page includes a list of events: "1. Gretchen had double mastectomy. 2. Candy's Mom died. Funeral was Thursday."
- 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:
a "hann-wait" procedure.
She has many more chapters to write in her life story.
July 12, 2020
Write this morning.
Sit down.
Take 1 hour to do this script.
10 Lines basically.
I can do this.
6 minutes each.
Right Page:
Communication
Inspiration
July 18, 2020
No theme thus far for this journal. In-between journal.
Just these last days!
1. Gretchen had double mastectomy.
2. Candy's Mom died.
Funeral was Thursday. - 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.
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