This or That_083
Item
- Title
- This or That_083
- Alternative Title
- This or That
- Creator
- Karen Blessen
- Date
- 2022-2023
- Description
- The image shows an open journal with handwritten notes and doodles. The left page has a red circle with the word "Destiny" and subheadings like "Soft focus" and "Hard focus." There are additional notes about desires, happiness, and the path. The right page contains more notes, including "Finish what you start," "Live for the whole," and "A mind poisoned by impurities." There are also highlighted phrases and a small drawing of a person. The overall layout is informal, with notes scattered across the page and some text overlapping with doodles.
- Identifier
- B-2022_050622 to 2023 102523_THIS OR THAT
- Dates Completed
- May 6, 2022 - October 25, 2023
- Keywords
- Visual journal; Photographs; 2022; Deep rest; American LOVE Project; 29 Pieces; Sundown plans; Reinvigoration; This Moment in Time; Timeline; Loose ends; Original vision; Artists Making a Kinder World; Curriculum; Brandon Woodard; Prison; THIS OR THAT; IF THIS THEN THAT; Dhammapada; Eknath Easwaran; Meditation; Kelly’s mother; Grief; Anxiety; Summer heat; Garden loss; Nervous breakdown; Fort Worth; Hotel retreat; Art museums; Botanical garden; Construction noise; Emotional overwhelm; Daily choices; Goya; Beatrix Potter; Hokusai; Rico Lebrun; Future direction; Circumstantial clarity
- Transcription
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'- Destiny (Unity)
- Live in hell? OR Find my heaven?
- Grow life (Unity)
- Soft focus or Hard focus.
- Desire profit, prestige, power? OR Desire the greater good?
- Lesser happiness or Greater happiness (pleasure, discomfort, unity/happiness)
- Yield to selfish desire? OR Defy it?
- Action 4 tontrees or Action 4 the
- Unintentional floating
- The path or Uphold the unity or Disrupt/destroy
- The Permanent?
- True elder. Truthful. virtuous. gentle. kind. OR I am impotent. ignorant.
- A brain polluted by impure thought? OR A brain impervious to pollution, that filters out the negative or doesn't allow it in, or immediately transforms or neutralizes it to something positive.
- Finish what you start
- Live for the whole
- Separate and suffer or Live with all life
- A mind poisoned by impurities
- An agent of chaos and disruption? OR A force for good?
- An impurity is an habit, mistake or foible that corrodes or ceases something good.
- A person who jumps off a bridge to end his or her life simply gets reborn to face the same misfortune all over again. P. 232 Dhammapada
- A closed up. Wryly heart? OR An open, big, roasting heart?
- - 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.
- Is Part Of
- This or That
- Relation
- Image Gallery