In February

The Flying Carpet

Encourages you to 

"Make Love Not War"

Make Valentines!

The weirder
the better

Gather them

Share them

Weave hearts together

Remember

Receive with full heart

Appreciation of friends

"An eye for an eye

makes the whole world blind"

Ghandi

JanuaryFlying Carpet 2026

In January

in the midst of chaos

The Flying Carpet

encourages you to stay centered*

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*Special thanks to Carol Eastes for this theme

1 Muse photo/collage Gail Rieke

2 Telephone Wire Basket

3 Magic Circle Vision painting Zachariah Rieke

4 "Old School" Valentine collage Gail Rieke (special thanks to Chrysa Wikstrom)

5 Japan Travel Journal envelopes Gail Rieke

6 Montserrat in Lisbon, Portugal

7 The Way painting Zachariah Rieke

8 Manhole cover Himeji, Japan

9 Ceramic teabowls and matcha

"Tea stops the world" 

 

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 Rebecca Salbury James

Image 8 Artist Serena Rieke

Image 10 Artist Sialia Rieke

Special thanks to The Lioness

 In November
The Flying Carpet
Went to the
12th Site Santa Fe International
Once within a Time

at Site Santa Fe
and the extension locations
near Santa Fe and Tesuque

Words from the catalogue
describe the photos of ART (A)
Words from the imagination
of The Flying Carpet
describe the photos of NONART (N)

see if you can tell which is which…
 
A. charred wood from wildfires
     apocalypse

B. the glimmer window
     of autumn

C. military remembrances

D. random poke and jot

E.  lifelessness waxen
    fecundity womb

F. adobe
ascension

 

G. class and caste
    glimpsed through cracks

H. cracked pot debris

I. ethnic tensions
    threaded through the valley

ANSWERS:
A. Guillermo Galindo Site Santa Fe (A)
B. Abandoned Shidoni foundry… Tesuque (N)
C. Military Museum Exhibition Space (N)
D. Wall of abandoned foundry… Tesuque (N)
E. Sidsel Meineche Hansen Site Santa Fe (A)
F. Window reflection Santa Fe Village (N)
G. Amol K. Patil Santa Fe Village (A)
H. Found outside Las Palomas Hotel (N)
I. Saodat Ismailova at Abandoned Shidoni Foundry (A)

 In October
The Flying Carpet
had “Georgia on my Mind”

…a visit to the Georgia O’Keefe Home
in Abiquiu, New Mexico

The sky bluer than blue

“The Rock House”

Walking within paintings

Shadows incised on the walls

Shadows soft upon the ground

Shadows of Moire

The ancient tamarisk

The expansive vista
“You become part of the valley
and the valley becomes part of you”
-Georgia O'Keefe

A prehistoric Tewa Pueblo existed on the site around 1300 A.D.

Special thanks to Kate