September Flying Carpet 2026

 In September…
this time of “rain gazing” 

(Issa 1822)
and seed scattering,
The Flying Carpet
remembers a dream from 1969:

Girl with cracked earth face
sitting on the ground
surrounded by bowls
and baskets
filled with seeds and pods and shells.
I walked by.
“Do you want to see
my Incredibility Museum?” she asked.
I said, “Yes!”

August Flying Carpet 2026

 In August
The Flying Carpet
ogled the 104th
Santa Fe Indian Market

Classicism meets invention
Shaydee Snow Pretends Eagle
beyond glorious

Windy City Navajo Guys

a matched set

Mona Lisa makes
a guest appearance

Indian Market survival:
bearskin, thermos, sunglasses

fire extinguisher, patience

and nonchalant style

Love Santa Fe summer

and a very special Wild Thing

 In July
The Flying Carpet
entices you
with a Sneak Peek
of details of my show

GAIL RIEKE

RE-COLLECTION

an exhibition
of collage,
assemblage
and journals

July 8 through August 31

by appointment only

to make an appointment

email:  gail@riekestudios.com

or phone landline: 505-988-5229
and leave a message

 

 

 

 

 

 

 In June
The Flying Carpet
sweltered in Albuquerque

a city  with aproximately 1,800 murals within the city limits!

Anybody can put up a mural anywhere
if the owner gives permission.

Varied… surreal… exuberant…

Special thanks to Maggie

May Flying Carpet 2026

 In May
The Flying Carpet
invites
you to share
a parallel existence-
The world of dreams

Two ways of living life
zigzag

or

meander

Blink of the eye photo
wedding through window

That's your new name
That's your new path

Oroboros

Answer the meteor shower
of the mind

Hand holding beating heart

Eating cloud pudding
with a spoon

Walking the Lollapalooza Trail
blind

I was asked to translate
an unknown language

The heartbeat of
The World

Special thanks to all the Dreamers

April Flying Carpet 2026

 In April 

The Flying Carpet 

accompanied Victoria 

on a 

Land of Dreams Adventure

we
Crashed in ROSWELL, NM

Where she was SMITTEN by a
tall green handsome alien

and took off for Outer Space 

I pleaded with her
to BE IN TOUCH

to no avail…
GONE!

but finally she RETURNED

Then we
admired Nancy Fleming
getting all her ducks in a row
at the 

Miniatures
and Curious Collections 

Museum

Then we
Spelunked in
CARLSBAD CAVERNS, NM
where time
turns rock into lace

Then we
ambled into
the CLOUDCROFT, NM
Western Bar
and beheld
more than
a fistful of DOLLARS

Then we
walked the empty streets
of CARRIZOZO, NM

trying to imagine
International World Art Day there
in a town where
cowboys
on brick pinto PONIES
gallop into blooming yuccas

Then we headed home.

Special thanks to VICTORIA
for returning from Outer Space