Interim Tangled Wires_044
Item
- Title
- Interim Tangled Wires_044
- Alternative Title
- Interim Tangled Wires and a Woodpecker on a Steel Pole
- Creator
- Karen Blessen
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- The image shows an open journal with handwritten text on the left page and a collage of cut-out letters and shapes on the right page. The collage includes the words "TREES," "B," "M," and "E" in various colors and fonts. The left page contains a dated entry from July 29, 2020, discussing the concept of a "perfect journal" and its potential as a receptacle for thoughts, lyrics, and melody. The right page features a textured collage with abstract shapes and colors, predominantly gray, black, and yellow.
- 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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Left Page:
7.29.20
ONE PERFECT JOURNAL.
What would make it?
Conception. Genetically programmed. The growth doesn't modify. Or get modified. Or disturbed or interrupted.
It would not be the receptacle for the day 2 day thoughts. Like this one is.
Or, if it were, there'd be a palette, a texture, a place for the lyrics and the melody together. Not side by side. But integrated.
Right Page:
Like a song. Or a symphony. Is it musical or narrative? A story or a tone poem? An album. - Rights
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