Interim Tangled Wires_058
Item
- Title
- Interim Tangled Wires_058
- 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 with a blue and gold patterned cover. The left page has a torn piece of paper with handwritten text titled "Responsibilities of a" followed by a timeline from 1993 to 1998, detailing medical diagnoses and deaths. The right page has another torn piece of paper with handwritten text titled "Child - The Caregiving Years," listing emotions and responsibilities. Small colorful paper cutouts are placed at the top of the page, and a small blue tag with the number "7" is visible on the right side.
- 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:
Responsibilities of a
1993 - 1998
1993 - Dad's diagnosis
1993 - Mom's diagnosis
1993 - Heart failure & congestive
1993 - Dad died
1998 - Mom died
Responsibility in every drive. It's a lot. Drives to doctors. Availability for everything. Daily bad news and issues. A career blossoming wildly. Times Square)
Right Page:
Child - The
Caregiving
Years
ABSOLUT, Angel
Book
Grief, Fatigue
But intensely
strong. Love. Intense
children. Love. Love
not fear.
FLAT OUT
intensity of
responsibility to
every possible
detail.
To respect. Fulfill
wishes. Be present. - Rights
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