Interim Tangled Wires_029
Item
- Title
- Interim Tangled Wires_029
- Alternative Title
- Interim Tangled Wires and a Woodpecker on a Steel Pole
- Creator
- Karen Blessen
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- The left side of the page features a Polaroid photograph of a window with a view of trees and a blue sky. The photo is labeled "WORTHY VIEW." The right side contains handwritten notes with a mix of cursive and print. The top of the page has the word "FLYING" in cut-out letters, with a small red bird image. The notes discuss themes of planning, fate, and unexpected outcomes.
- 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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FLYING
Quiet time. Seeing into the future, than letting God laugh at plans and say "hey, not that, but THIS."
The feeble planning seems to be an essential part of that process though. And sometimes, it all happens just not the way I'd envisioned.
Who could've dreamt all of this up? A Pulitzer, a murder, an organization, 100,000 + young people! - 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.
- Relation
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