American LOVE Project_094
Item
- Title
- American LOVE Project_094
- Alternative Title
- American LOVE Project
- Creator
- Karen Blessen
- Date
- 2021-2022
- Description
- The image displays an open journal with two pages visible. The pages contain handwritten text in black ink with several paragraphs and lists, detailing philosophical and reflective content. The right page is headed with a spiral. There are small illustrations like spirals next to some paragraphs. In the background, several colorful tabs visible at the top of the pages are labeled with titles like "MY JOURNALS," "MY UNFINISHED A," and "AMBULANCE RIDE."
- Identifier
- 2021_010621 to 2022 060222_The American LOVE Project Journal
- Dates Completed
- January 6, 2021 - June 2, 2022
- Keywords
- Insurrection; January 6; US Capitol; Texas freeze; Infrastructure fragility; Political instability; Power outage; Water disruption; Internet loss; Medical services disruption; Mail delay; Dallas weather; Lorraine Lienemann; Cancer; Grief; P. Nut; Sparky; Cat loss; 22-year-old cats; American LOVE Project; 29 Pieces; Violence response; National project; Art installation; Washington DC; Covid resurgence; Online gallery; Student art; Educator art; 24 states; Team collaboration; Project outcome; theamericanloveproject.org; Anne Frank; Diary takeaways; Lessons learned; Studio visit; Darryl Ratcliff; Journal viewing; Strategic shift
- Transcription
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Left page:
"We imagine those months between the capture and her death. Did she maintain hope? Where there at least some later summer, Indian summer and autumn days when she could see her beloved sky?
Was Margot a comfort?
Were there young women raped by Nazi soldiers?
Was anyone kind to her?
Was she kind to others?
Did she have a pen? A pencil? Paper?
I pray she didn't suffer. But that's foolish. She suffered. She saw. She observed. The utter depravity to which humans can sink. This girl.
This precious young woman had to witness this.
And precious young people all over the world witness"
Right Page:
"this every day. As do animals, trees, the ocean, rivers, the air.
I did not sense overt religiousity among the inhabitants of the Annex. She didn't talk about rituals or ceremonies or prayers - or religious reading.
Beautiful people parish.
Beautiful spirits live.
There spirits live on.
We multiply them by listening
Truely experiencing unity of all - human, animal, plant, living and dead.
Their eyes are now our eyes.
Their tender touch, our tender touch.
Their work, our work." - Rights
- To inquire about usage, please contact Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries.
- Is Part Of
- American Love Project
- Relation
- Image Gallery