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Interim Tangled Wires_024

Item

A mixed-media page from a scrapbook or journal featuring a photograph, handwritten notes, and various cut-out papers.
Title
Interim Tangled Wires_024
Alternative Title
Interim Tangled Wires and a Woodpecker on a Steel Pole
Creator
Karen Blessen
Date
2020
Description
The page is part of a scrapbook or journal. It includes a photograph of a person lying in a hospital bed, covered with a white blanket. The photo is placed on a dark background with a label underneath it reading "Grotchen M. Singh 7.14.20." Surrounding the photograph are various cut-out papers in different colors and textures, including yellow, gray, and black. Handwritten notes are visible on the right side of the page, with some text partially obscured by the cut-out papers. The handwriting appears to be in cursive and is difficult to fully decipher.
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
The handwritten text on the right side of the page reads:
"Two friends
called emo
She's now concer
chest and
by the onatality
of the concen
er. (It scares
at an emotional
hit her. But
gone. She
and find
called and
latest - very
some drug is
g. And Onreds"
Rights
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