Interim Tangled Wires_082
Item
- Title
- Interim Tangled Wires_082
- Alternative Title
- Interim Tangled Wires and a Woodpecker on a Steel Pole
- Creator
- Karen Blessen
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- : The left page contains a photograph of a tree stump with a chainsaw lying on the ground, and a quote from Lynn Kurland overlaid on the image. The right page is filled with handwritten notes discussing a tree-cutting incident and a conversation with someone named Ricky.
- 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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- SHE WAS SITTING IN A GARDEN MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN EVEN HER RAMPAGING IMAGINATION
- COULD EVER HAVE CONJURED UP, AND SHE WAS BEING SERENADED BY TREES.
- LYN KURLAND
- Cutting trees in front of the house.
- I went to Whole Foods and came back to the branch of the tree at the corner of Mr. Patzuk's house lying in our garden, and the kid broken off the possum ran holly.
- 9. I totally lost my shit at Ricky—who clearly didn't know what the hell he was doing. He was cutting tall trees at the base.
- I texted [blacked out]. I was angry.
- He came over. - 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
- Image Gallery