December Flying Carpet 2025

 In 2025 

The Flying Carpet 

saw "altars everywhere"

 

marking the moments
singular and recurring
a visible prayer
 1
Folk Art Museum
La Dia De Los Muertos
beyond the beyond

2
mannikin dress up
exuberant invention
more is truly more

3
dance of life and death
a family offrenda
veil between worlds

4
tools remaining
a lifetime of devotion
stone integrity

5
phrenology cats
papier-mâché Buddha heads
a Grey Matter shrine

6
an altar of shadows
more fleeting than memory
“If it were my dream…”

7
At 10,000 Waves
“there's nothing like the real thing”
pretending Japan

8
opalescent glow
candlelight and fireplace
illumine the dark

9
Governor's Palace
Christmas lights up the Plaza
tourist promenade

10
careful observance
putting the garden to sleep
transcending seasons

Image 1 Artist Stephanie Riggs

Image 2 Artist Coreen Cordova

Image 3 Artists Sialia Rieke and Jacob Baudhuin

Image 4 Artist Marc Saxe

Image 5 Artists Bruce Gray and Miranda Gray

Image 6 Site Santa Fe Artist ___

Image 8 Artist Serena Rieke

Image 10 Artist Sialia Rieke

Special thanks to The Lioness