May Flying Carpet 2025

 In the midst of a whirling world…
The Flying Carpet envisions stillness:

as still as a blessing

as still as memory

as still as rust

as still as a sleeping Buddha

as still as wood awaiting fire

as still as a monumental boulder

As Still as strength

as still as a cemetery spiderweb 

at dawn

as still as stone garden raindrops

as still as the center

of a cactus mandala

April 2025

 In April
The Flying Carpet
Contemplates the Egg

Psanky Hanky Panky
Rieke Style

Ukrainian Easter Eggs
at Susan’s Christmas/
Easter/ Valentine Shop

(We hold the people of Ukraine
close to our hearts)

Quail Eggs like tiny planets
at the Farmer’s Market

Eggs in the studio

Rhea, Emu, Ostrich

Boa Constrictor

Brancusi explored essential form
and called his egg sculptures
The Beginning of the World

Brancusi's studio
recreated in Paris

As we contemplate perfection
in an imperfect world,
at times we revel in
the unexpected…

Stick Insect eggs
photographed by Levon Biss
remind me
of ancient Chinese medicine bottles!

April 5th Flying Carpet

 
An extra pre-emptive swoop!

Desperate Times call for Desperados
and they were there

at the Government's Round House

in Fanta Se
on April 5th
protesting in Santa Fe Style

Sign not photographed
Truth Decay
(a dentist?)

March 2025

 In March
The Flying Carpet
Bundles past experiences…

tying and wrapping
jaunts into the wide world
and
“Bringin’ it all back home”

Play Bundle

Moulins Bundle

Scroll Bundle

Spiral Shell Bundle

Treasure Bundle

Ikazaki  Bundle

Filo

 

Edgy Ledger

February 2025

 In February

The Flying Carpet 

found beauty in impermanence

January 2025

In January
the Flying Carpet
flew low and carefully
through shadows

shadows of late afternoon stillness
 

shadows of inscrutable messages

shadows of whisper moire

 shadows of webbed glass

shadows of imperceptible tangle

  shadows of vine calligraphy

shadows of wrought iron lace

shadows of transience

shadows of the past

Special thanks to 

Erica Wannamaker 

and John Garrett

for making sculptures

that cast exquisite shadows