The Organized Mess: A Partial precursor to Tags
The Organized Mess
Permanently stuck to a wooden door, placed with care on the front of the outside brass doorknob by caring (though perhaps awkward) eight year old hands is a sticker. The blue background and the shooting star, trailing behind it a perfect rainbow invites anyone to step to the other side and enter a world long forgotten; a world in which a young boy has his pot of gold.
This is a mess that could only be appreciated by the youth who created it. The figures’ long procession through the carpeting begins at the first inches after crossing the threshold separating this and reality. Wild colors in plastics and Die Cast Metals decorate a boring brown carpet that is now a harsh rocky wilderness in which adventurers meet and struggle against unstoppable forces of evil. Autobots and Deceptecons wage war, battle for control of precious energon to get them back home. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe fight to stop Skeletor and his evil minions from controlling both halves of the Power Sword, gaining all the powers of Castle Grayskull, and ruling Eternia forever. Mere inches away GI Joe has once again forced the relentless terrorist organization known as Cobra to retreat. Directly behind them the Legion of Doom attempts to over-power the Super Friends and control the earth. All of it wonderfully disorganized, with shouts of “It ain’t dirty, I got everything right where I want it.” Resonating to a frustrated mother. All of these factions separated by the imagination that never allows them a moment of piece.
But in one thing they all rule together; the child, the villains, the heroes. Together they dominate the dainty steps of the adults who would threaten to compromise their very existence, and place them neatly on shelves and bookcase tops. They protect their world from invasion by their very presence. They poke and prod until none but those who know the path through the land mine can penetrate. And the eternal struggle is fought with plastics, Die Cast Metals, and the organized mess.
posted by David Fuchs (Greg Goble) @ 4:05 PM
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