Interim Tangled Wires_037
Item
- Title
- Interim Tangled Wires_037
- Alternative Title
- Interim Tangled Wires and a Woodpecker on a Steel Pole
- Creator
- Karen Blessen
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- The image shows a spiral-bound notebook with handwritten text on both pages. The left page lists "Institutional Breakdowns" including the Supreme Court, the Senate, some state governments, supply chain in times of health crises, the post office, distribution of accurate scientific knowledge, the court system, and the Fourth Estate. The right page contains a more fragmented text discussing the time of COVID-19, outrage, the president, sycophants, breakdowns of institutions, the post office, damage to the planet, and reflections on reviews and childhood. The top of the right page has the word "TREES" in colorful cut-out letters, and the top of the left page has the word "BLM" in similar cut-out letters.
- 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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Left Page:
INSTITUTIONAL BREAKDOWNS
The Supreme Court
The Senate
Some State Governments
Supply Chain in Times of Health Crises
The Post Office
Distribution of Accurate Scientific Knowledge
Court System
The Fourth Estate
Right Page:
The Time of Cond 19
along with fury + outrage
at the cruelty + idiocy
of our president + sycophants
surrounding + supporting him,
the breakdown of our
institutions (now the
post office), the damage
to our garden planet
this time prohibits
sometimes welcome,
sometimes unwelcome
reviews of past transgressions.
And a juvenile
review of "what if's?"
about childhood. Some
of it is or feels stupid
but those thoughts wall - 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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