Interim Tangled Wires_018
Item
- Title
- Interim Tangled Wires_018
- Alternative Title
- Interim Tangled Wires and a Woodpecker on a Steel Pole
- Creator
- Karen Blessen
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- The image shows an open scrapbook page with two black-and-white photographs on the left side and handwritten text on the right. The photographs depict a man and a woman holding a baby, with the caption "December 1993 Columbus Hospital. I gave into Mom's eyes." The right side of the page contains handwritten text discussing emotional and cultural reflections, mentioning ancestors and feelings of being forgotten. The top of the page has a small stack of yellowed paper and a black letter "G" and "D" attached to the top right corner.
- 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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I rarely, if ever went to my parents for comfort. I protected them.
So I never cried in front of them—maybe a few times in my entire life.
Among my Black friends, Native friends call on their ancestors. Should I do that more? Are their spirits fading because they are being forgotten?
Some of it comes - 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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