December Flying Carpet 2018

In December
The Flying  Carpet
remembered 2018 as
The Year of Zany

We were all eyes and ears
for the news

 

waiting for
the other shoe to drop

 

everything seemed unreal

 

off kilter

 

 

and broken
 

 

We wanted to escape 

into chocolate,
 

 

outer space,

 

and/or
inner space
 

 

As we come out of the daze
and enter into the days of 2019
The Flying Carpet
sends wishes for
many intriguing doors 

to open for you

November Flying Carpet 2018

In November the Flying Carpet shares
shrines of Thanksgiving 
and gratitude
and remembrance.

The Ofrenda is a shrine
created during the 

Mexican Day of the Dead celebration.
This home memorial,
created at Casa Perea by several people
to honor the recently departed,
shows Ann Murdy and her photographs
of Oaxaca Dia De Los Muertos.

These community

Dia de Los Muertos shrines
at the Museum of International Folk Art,

Santa Fe,

are artistic translations of this tradition.

In rural Japan
families celebrate harvest
with humble but eloquent displays
outside their homes

and practical, functional and exquisite
wrappings and hangings
like these drying persimmons

These sake barrel offerings 

at Meiji shrine, Tokyo
symbolize blessings and abundance

An offering of auspicious elements
in the stall of a fish seller
at Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo
magnetizes good luck.

Wandering through temples 

in Laos
our hearts are transported 

by so much glowing beauty.

Young monks are inspired and instructed
before the altar of their monastery
in Luang Prabang

The Flying Carpet

hopes these images 

will lift your spirits.

October Flying Carpet 2018

In October 

The Flying Carpet savors FRANCE

 

In the U.S. it's known as “window shopping”.
In France they call it “licking the windows”!
 

PARIS
 

Don'cha love it?
Josephine Baker… 

lampshade mimi-skirt etc., etc., etc.,

 

 The Famous Autograph Store

 

 

Chippendale Mermen at Tittilandus
 

 

Scratch 'n sniff

 

 

Cimetiére de Montmartre
dilapidated…crumbling…cobwebby
stained glass illumination
 

Musée des Arts et Metiers
Bat Flying Machine 

soars into mythological gingerbread

 

 

MAISON CONTI in MONTMIRAIL
Nancy's Eco Dyed fabric collage 

in the atelier

 

 

Rhapsody… 

church window reflection…

pansies

 

 

Workshop Field Trip!!!!!
PAYS DE LA LOIRE, HEAVEN

 

 

This one’s for you, Nancy…
quintessential France Beauty…

 

 

Manoir de Lorrain  in NOCÉ
Albert in clown mode

 

 

Nostalgia window

 

 

across from
La Maison d’Horbé, LE PERRIÉRE
where we had an astounding time

 

 

“The eyes are the windows of the soul”
The Church of Saint Genest in LAVARDIN
Frescoes disappearing in time

 

 

Special thanks to:
Valery, Jen, Ann, Nancy, Lang, Nelly,

Rick, and our Mascot, Hairy

(Photo by Zack)

 

 

and  Zack

 

September Flying Carpet 2018

In September
The Flying Carpet
saddled up and was rarin' to go to Texas
on a whirlwind trip
 

On the road, the wrecked billboards advertised blue sky
in the spaces between rotted boards and shredded ads

“Icy bridge” signs proclaimed unseasonable disaster

In Amarillo at the Coyote Bluff Cafe
 

translucent pack horses hauled neon beer signs

After a Texas shaped waffle for breakfast (!)
on the way to Dallas
“4,000 Cowboy Hats
20 miles ahead”

At the Turquoise Coffee Shop at Chillicothe
Cowboy and cowgirl silhouettes

sun-blasted plants
black thumbs

a sense of abandonment
 

We drove

 "Till the wheels fall off and burn”

No words needed

So glad I

 “waltzed across Texas with you”

Thanks to my sidekick, Zachariah

 

August Flying Carpet 2018

In August The Flying Carpet 

clicked it's heels together and heard,
“There's no place like home”

 Waking in the morning…
the garden after welcomed rain

Returning inside…
Looking though the door 
to the first collage studio

Entering the mysterious

Opening the drawers…
wondering what will change today?

 Trying to keep track of the daze

 

 Wandering back out the door

 To the main gallery space
where Zachariah's paintings
have been shown all month

Many visitors 
also seeing composite paintings
in his studio

And then back out to the garden
Good Morning!
How about a cup of tea?

Truly,
"There's no place like home"

Special thanks to Zachariah
for collaborating 
on the studio/ gallery photographs