Interim Tangled Wires_036
Item
- Title
- Interim Tangled Wires_036
- Alternative Title
- Interim Tangled Wires and a Woodpecker on a Steel Pole
- Creator
- Karen Blessen
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- The page is part of a spiral-bound notebook. The left page is predominantly black, with two cut-out images of red birds placed on it. The right page contains handwritten text in a cursive script. At the top of the right page, there are colorful cut-out letters spelling out "TREES" and "BIME." The text on the right page discusses the relationship between parents and children, questioning loyalty and care in old age, and reflects on the long-term responsibilities of parents and children.
- 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
- Then what? Do the parents watch wistfully as their babies fly away? All that urgency of their upbringing? Or where does it go? Do the babies have lasting loyalty to their parents? Or does life simply move on? Do babies take care of parents in their old age? I realized I know nothing about birds, or parents, or parents + children. The long view responsibility.
- 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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