Interim Tangled Wires_054
Item
- Title
- Interim Tangled Wires_054
- 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. It includes three photographs of a family group, with the top photo showing a man and two women, the middle photo showing a group of four people, and the bottom photo showing a man and two women. The right-hand side of the page has handwritten notes with questions and reflections, and the top right corner has the word "TREES" in colorful block letters. There are also small decorative elements, such as small bricks or blocks, placed at the top of the page.
- 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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Handwritten Text:
Dad,
Aunt Lily,
Johnny,
Emma
Pensick
Aunt Lily
Vondy
Me, Johnny
& Emma
(CB)ession
Pensick
Loved
these
two.
Lily + Emma.
Love
them.
Questions:
(1) Are we responsible to leave the past in the past?
(2) How accountable is the parent-child relationship? This could go on for pages. I ask it for myself and for the young people I work with.
Here I am lower night
Days before leaving NE
for NYC, then Dallas.
I owed my parents re-
assurance of
love that
I would not
be finish on
reckless, and
that I would
stay connected
through letters+
call Ms. - 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