Interim Tangled Wires_072
Item
- Title
- Interim Tangled Wires_072
- 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 photograph of a tree that has been cut at the base, with the caption "TREES CUT AT BASE" written below it. The right side of the page contains handwritten text, which appears to be a personal reflection or journal entry. The handwriting is in cursive and is somewhat faded, suggesting it might be from an older scrapbook. The text discusses personal memories and reflections on family relationships, specifically mentioning a mother and her desire for her child to be beautiful and different.
- 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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I was a smart kid, but I loved those magazines. Why? To escape. Was Pearl, Ross, Simpson, Geraldine, Singleton trying to escape, too?
One time—I was 17 or so—a friend of Mom's told me (in front of Mom) that I looked like my mother. Maybe I had a look on my face—I don't know. But Mom looked at me and said "She doesn't want to look like me. She wants to be beautiful." At the time, I perceived nuances of affection in Mom's words. ("She wants to be better than me." "She wants to be different.") - 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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