Flying Carpet

Sunday, January 31, 2021

January Flying Carpet 2021

In Jaunuary

The Flying Carpet

sends you Missives

because she is missing you all

Hope Health Safety Patience

Thursday, December 31, 2020

December Flying Carpet 2020

In September, October, November
and December of 2020
The Flying Carpet

did a daily calendar project

called Ritual of Fragments.

This is the month of November.

Part of October and November

By September 2020,
it felt like the days

were drifting by in a haze.

In an effort to grasp specificity
within the strange fluidity

of this time…
The flying carpet decided
to make a calendar

of 3” black and white drawings

This is a detail of December

perceiving the extraordinary

within the ordinary

11 25 2020

Turning the corner

11 4&5 2020

It's all about the numbers

11 7 2020

Breaking the Glass Ceiling

10 25 2020

Migration Amazement

9 26 2020

Purple Datura Silhouette

10 8 2020

Feeling like being

in the eye of the hurricaine

All wishes for health and well being

in the New Year

Monday, November 30, 2020

November Flying Carpet 2020

In November
The Flying carpet
prayed for a transition
from chaos to order

Special thanks to EVERYONE

who made this a possibility

Saturday, October 31, 2020

In October,
The Flying Carpet
attempts to navigate
“The Cloud of Unknowing”
during this incredible time of
so many overlays
of truth and falsehoods.

Images of palimpsest come to mind

Traditionally palimpsest referred to
a manuscript or writing fragment
on which the original writing
has been partially removed
to make room for later writing
but with original traces remaining.

Now a palimpsest can be…
something reused or layered
but still revealing visible traces
like these walls in Nara, Japan

A palimpsest of billboard messages
subsumed in time

Or the message implied
by what remains visible

The forces of nature
obscuring a graveyard memorial

or autographs of men
fighting in Algeria…
a palimsest of
person superimposed upon place

…and history juxtaposed
with the present…
So many sailors from distant lands
waiting with their goods
quarantined on San Lorenzo,
“The Plague Island” off Venice…
a palimpsest of their scrawls

“Before I Die'

is a global wall art project…
originally created by Candy Chang
on an abandoned house

in New Orleans
after the death of a loved one.
There are now
over 5,000 of these walls

around the world.

A Momento Mori

for the modern age...
This one becomes an inscrutable
palimpsest in North Carolina

A memory moment
captured in reflection palimpsest

Summer Fall Winter Spring,
my journal for the year 2008…
layers of daily drawings
on translucent mylar...
fan shaped segments...
hermetic images
approximating the way
events can float
to the surface of memory

With heartfelt love to all...

Thanks to Sialia for making

the excellent box

for Summer Fall Winter Spring

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

September Flying Carpet 2020

In September

The Flying Carpet notices

that in this time of seclusion
and hasty planned escapes,
the happenstance of SERENDIPITY
seems almost non existent.

So, The Flying Carpet
sends you an antidote:
Greatest Hits of SERENDIPITY

Our neighborhood kebab joint
in Venice…
an assemblage readymade…

André Breton, surrealist,
enthused about
“the chance encounter
of a sewing machine and an umbrella
on an operating table”
but how about
this Elephant Carving School
in Chaing Mai?

Mistaking free bookmarks
for our look-alike
Biennale tickets in Venice (!)
our day’s plans caput…
we discovered this strangeness…

SERENDIPITY… defined as
“an apparent aptitude
for making
fortunate discoveries accidentally”
These leering Nagas
and this sign in Laos
seemed like providence