Gate of Blossoms - A Collection of Stories
Stories Inspired by Liliana Sâmbotin's Gate of Blossoms
At the end of June, we invited writers to send us flash stories inspired by Liliana Sâmbotin’s Gate of Blossoms. What emerged was a collection of poems and flash stories.
Every writer took the original work of art in a different direction, discovering a world that could only have emerged from that particular meeting between the artwork and the writer. The art piece became several new works of fiction, each independent of the original and yet impossible without it.
That is what art does. While we meet in our appreciation of its beauty, it speaks differently to all of us, allowing us to complete it with everything we have lived, and to feel it in our own special way.
The Gate of Blossoms became a search for truth, a longing for memory, one encounter with loss and unexpected kindness, a meditation on the invitations we choose to refuse, and the ones we choose to follow.
Each writer approached the same blue door carrying different memories and different fears, different questions. The painting remained the same. The worlds they discovered did not.
The challenge may be ending, but the gate is waiting for the next person who pauses long enough to wonder what lies beyond a blue door beneath purple blossoms.
Feeling Blue, by Barbara Fuller
Gate of Blossoms, by Liliana Sâmbotin
Wild Enough, by Diana Sâmbotin
The Door in the Wall Shall Remain Closed, by Ileana Marin
The Stories Behind the Door, by Sanda Berar