July Flying Carpet 2015

Once in a Blue Moon
in mid June
The FC
waved
ciao to Italy
and bonjour to France

Montmirail felt like home
as the Carpet
rippled
over the welcoming countryside
and
landed 

at Maison Conti

maisonconti.com

ascended
hushed streets at dawn

gazed
at the sunrise reflecting windows

a garden shining in dew

returned
past the church...
its tintinnabulation silenced
until the town wakes at 7:00

presented
The Artist as Traveler workshop

made
a pilgrimage
to Chartres

beheld
its spires bristling with gee gaws 

and gargoyles

shimmered
in luminescence

and then...
marvelled
at the genius of Raymond Isadore

the inventor of La Maison Picassiette in Chartres

"The House of a million pieces”

Special Thanks to

Nancy, Rick, Ruby, Sydney,

Nelly, Andrea, Sue, & Karen

May Flying Carpet 2015

In May the Flying Carpet
Zoomed the Lagoon of Venice

and reveled in the GLORY that was Venice
Queen of the Seas
Empress of Palazzos and Fog and Mystery

But wait!
Anachronism reigns supreme in modern Venice...
Gondoliers in full gondolieregalia 

texting on cell phones

Mixed media shrines in the labyrinth of alleyways

“The Circus is in Town"

 The 56th Venice Biennale 

growls and squeaks and yells and gasps its last 

in the pavilion fun houses

and locations snatched from ruin

Aliens have surely landed amidst the baroque

And at the Arsenale

A moon-walk space suit 

made of defunct Zimbabwean money 

hovers amidst the ancient stone walls

Statues are everywhere 

For all you animal rights activists, 

the pigeons are alive and well in Venice... 

but not for long...
(No animals were harmed 

in the production of this photograph 

by Zachariah.)

Juxtapositions making sense

and nonsense

Environments obliterated

and enhanced
in a style vaguely redolent 

of complete confusion

Comte de Lautréamont's 

classic definition of surrealism:
“As beautiful as the chance encounter 

of a sewing machine 

and an umbrella 

on an operating table.” 

comes to mind in the stage set of Venice

“I have felt the wing of the wind of madness”-- Cy Twombly

Again...Special thanks to the Emily Harvey Foundation 

for a month-long residency in Venice

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.)