Gordian Knots – Ideasmyth

GORDIAN KNOTS: “One Day at the Change Machine” by Flash Rosenberg (6/6)

This is a comical, yet very sad portrait of the tragic CHANGE that happens when the most innovative, creative people are forced to…

GORDIAN KNOTS: “Moment Preserved” by Flash Rosenberg (5/6)

Flash didn’t want a PICTURE to remember a breakfast at her kitchen table with her dear friend Renee. She wanted to preserve Renee sitting there, fresh in tin foil–forever!

GORDIAN KNOTS: “Emotional Involvement Protection Garb” by Flash Rosenberg (4/6)

Finding a stack of adhesive, reflective Mylar at a flea market immediately inspired the creation of this cubistically fortified…

GORDIAN KNOTS: “Express Yourself Lane” by Flash Rosenberg (3/6)

Supermarkets have always struck Flash as a paradise for surrealism.

GORDIAN KNOTS: “Assheels” by Flash Rosenberg (2/6)

Flash was concerned that the person who looked at a woman’s foot and decided that high heels might be a good idea…might be thinking of something even worse.

GORDIAN KNOTS: Dani Tru’s Off Balance (True Romantic #6)

I used to have an old red suitcase where I kept my journals, about fifty or so notebooks, each filled with stories and poems, travel notes, bits of this and that I’d glued onto…

GORDIAN KNOTS: Dani Tru’s The Hope Chest (True Romantic #5)

My mother owned a long narrow cedar trunk that looked to me, when I was a little girl, like a coffin. It was at the end of her bed and my mother would pile quilts on the…

GORDIAN KNOTS: Dani Tru’s Moving Out (True Romantic #4)

Looking through the lens of the present, after all that has happened between us—all the good things and the bad—it is hard to see The Magician clearly, without prejudice.

GORDIAN KNOTS: Dani Tru’s Meet The Magician (True Romantic #3)

Lately, I’ve been thinking about origin myths. Creation ex nihilo, creation from the void, mythical creation, creation by God, and creation by the Big Bang—I’m into all…