Interim Tangled Wires_071
Item
- Title
- Interim Tangled Wires_071
- Alternative Title
- Interim Tangled Wires and a Woodpecker on a Steel Pole
- Creator
- Karen Blessen
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- The image shows an open spiral-bound notebook. The left page is covered with a black plastic sleeve, and the right page contains handwritten text. The title "The TREES AFTER" is written in black ink on lined paper placed over the black sleeve. The right page has a beige background with handwritten text in black ink, describing a personal memory about reading Teen Magazine in high school. The handwriting is neat and legible.
- 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
-
When I was in high school,
I read Teen Magazine
cover to cover. Movie magazines
were over present to Amy B.
Pearl bought them + brought
them to Columbus. Rosal
Geraldine Simpson gave
stacks of them to us
when they were finished
with them. Here we
were— here I was—
poring over movie magazines
anything at Liz Taylor
Edded Fish, Richard
Burton, Jackie Kennedy,
Debbie Reynolds, Dan Poy,
Rock Hudson.
Why? There we all came
in a small town in Nebraska
caught up in the polished
fantasies of the lives of
celebrities! - 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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