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Karen Blessen Journals

Interim Tangled Wires_075

Item

A collage-style page featuring a photograph, text, and handwritten notes.
Title
Interim Tangled Wires_075
Alternative Title
Interim Tangled Wires and a Woodpecker on a Steel Pole
Creator
Karen Blessen
Date
2020
Description
- The left side of the page contains a black-and-white photograph of a tree stump with a shadow of a person standing next to it. The text "WHEN TREES BURN, THEY LEAVE THE SMELL OF HEARTBREAK IN THE AIR" is overlaid on the image, attributed to Khalil Gibran.
- The right side of the page has a handwritten note with some text obscured by black lines, likely for privacy reasons. The visible text reads: "her—and there is no other have that conversation. 90 give her an example of my self-consciousness. The example was my experience near the Union Station subway stop in NYC in April 9 2005!"
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 TREES BURN, THEY LEAVE THE SMELL
- OF HEARTBREAK
- IN THE AIR.
- —KHALIL GIBRAN
- her—and there is no other have that conversation.
- 90 give her an example
- of my self-consciousness.
- The example was my experience
- near the Union Station subway
- stop in NYC in April 9 2005!
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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