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Karen Blessen Journals

Interim Tangled Wires_064

Item

A journal page featuring a photograph of a forest path and handwritten text discussing modern societal issues.
Title
Interim Tangled Wires_064
Alternative Title
Interim Tangled Wires and a Woodpecker on a Steel Pole
Creator
Karen Blessen
Date
2020
Description
The image shows an open journal with a photograph of a forest path on the left page. The photograph is framed with a black border and has a handwritten label "Looking to the House" below it. The right page contains handwritten text discussing various topics such as cacophony, noise, conflict, and social media influence. The handwriting is in a cursive style, and the page appears to be part of a larger, possibly personal, journal or scrapbook.
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
The mode of the time is cacophony. Noise. Conflict. Get your name out. Social media. Be an influence. There's conflict about EVERYTHING - from masks to how many steps to walk a day to racism/white privilege/embodied social privilege/police brutal. Global warming/no such thing. And at on ad exhaustion. Energy life force draining. Dissolving. As a and as don't I mean to move into the invisible. We are not solid blocks of matter in the first place. We are buzzing in why entities of sub-atomic particles.
Rights
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