Interim Tangled Wires_021
Item
- Title
- Interim Tangled Wires_021
- 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 text and a photograph. The photograph is of an older woman standing in front of a house. The page is decorated with small doodles, including a squiggly line and a small circle. The top of the page has a small section of yellow paper with the letters "G-D" printed on it. The text is written in a casual, cursive style, and the page is dated "July 21, 2020."
- 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
- Mom came to visit in Dallas two or three times. Only shortly after I'd moved here. W. Tichener and Mom came for a visit. I'd been about here. I'd down phone. Mom came. never Mom once. chart. when folks + Phoebe came. And I think Mom came once more on her own. She enjoyed Southfork and the State Fair. upset moving and breaking on the They Dad did. came for mas. Kolgy. she knew. And she got an artist. July 21, 2020 Sometimes my minds drifts back and looks onto foolish stupid things I've done. It makes/helps me understand the Catholic ritual of confession. "Forgive me Father for I have sinned." I. I stole. I took a little spiral notebook from West End grocery and I lied about it.
- 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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