Interim Tangled Wires_057
Item
- Title
- Interim Tangled Wires_057
- 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. On the left side, there is a handwritten note discussing various topics such as school, health, and environmental concerns. The right side contains a photograph of a person taking a selfie in a mirror, with the word "TREES" at the top and a note below the photo referencing "Gretchen's grandmother." The background includes textured paper and a small decorative element.
- 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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Handwritten Text:
Persist about school/no
school, no
Dallas has daily high
rates of death from
Covid-19 and still
some people won't
wear masks.
All this and global
warming + carbon
emissions going to an
expiration date for
human life on
earth.
Peter Brand was
right on so many
counts.
Photograph Note:
From Gretchen's grandmother
To her mother... to Gretchen... and to me. - 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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