June Flying Carpet 2015

In June 

The Flying Carpet

gazed into mirrors 

and windows 

and reflections

in the wonder of Venice

"Mirrors:

each drawing its own

widespread streaming beauty

back into its face" -Rilke

Enormous constellation globes

 Floating star mysteries

In the hush of rooms of dust

Ancient pattern upon pattern

Where air is water and water is air

And space becomes conundrum

And the rooms are abandoned

to grandeur

Special thanks to my companion and navigator Z

April Flying Carpet 2015

Lucy, the girl with kaleidoscope eyes,

took a trip 

on The Flying Carpet

to Tucson

flashing on sacred geometry

in the desert

the mirage of "life longing for itself"

Let's become children at play

with new eyes

Special thanks to Paperworks,

Krista, and Carolyn

March Flying Carpet 2015

In March the Flying Carpet 

became a Fashion Show Runway

as Kyoto Style Maven Ritsuko Beimel 

nimbly hopped aboard

to scoop the new spring trends in Fanta Se

Accessorize Accessorize Accessorize 

with
Miso Pretty Now
Pasquales Menus
and left behind Tourist sombrero

The Just off the Plane from India Look

Meow Wolf Collective Collector Collection
of patches on patches on patches

Take wing!

Sikh and ye shall find

February Flying Carpet 2015

In February, the Flying Carpet 
went spelunking.

New Mexico is a place 
filled with people of unique vision.

Ra Paulette, 

"a digger of caves and a piler of rocks" 
is one of them.

He has dug transformative spaces

in the hoodoos

in and around his home.

He sculpts these sacred spaces

as a celebration.

To be in the earth

and surrounded by earth

with the light streaming in from above

and to be there

with two of the best

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Special thanks to R. and J.

(An excellent short film

entitled Cave Digger

can be seen on Vimeo.)

January Flying Carpet 2015

Otafuku's Dream

Japan Journal 2012

finally ready to be shared

Special thanks to:

Franziska 

who did the great animation on the website

Everyone who joined me in my travels

in 2012

and always Esprit

December Flying Carpet 2014

In December the Flying Carpet 

loves to be the still point 

in the midst of holiday madness...

"In an age of speed,

I begin to think,

nothing could be more invigorating

than going slow.

In an age of distraction,

nothing could feel more luxurious

than paying attention.

And in an age of constant movement,

nothing is more urgent

than sitting still."

-Pico Iyer in The Art of Stillness

A wise man once sent me this quote 

and it keeps returning to me again and again:

Don’t even listen;

simply wait, be quiet,

still and solitary.

The world will offer itself to be unmasked.

It has no choice;

it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

-Kafka