Interim Tangled Wires_085
Item
- Title
- Interim Tangled Wires_085
- Alternative Title
- Interim Tangled Wires and a Woodpecker on a Steel Pole
- Creator
- Karen Blessen
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- The page is part of a spiral-bound notebook. On the left side, there is a photograph of a construction site with wooden poles and a partially visible house in the background. Overlaid on the photo is a quote by Khalil Gibran: "Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky." Below the photo, the words "Sand and Foam" are written. The right side of the page contains handwritten notes in a cursive script, discussing various topics including a quote from Ricky's friend, liability issues, and personal reflections on a situation.
- 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
-
Left Side:
"TREES ARE POEMS
THAT THE EARTH
WRITES
UPON THE SKY."
— KHALIL GIBRAN
Sand and Foam
Right Side:
with him. He hid me he
was getting a quote
from Ricky's friend
about some of the big trees.
I stewed. About all the
liability issues— he
has given himself to
be willing to break the
low. + to do sloppy work.
He thought a six pack
Could change me.
His workers would be
in our yards. They could
damage our property.
I have to babysit this
shitty situation.
So. I couldn't sleep. I
woke up thinking— what - 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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