Flying Carpet

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

Perhaps our most
SERENDIPITOUS
day ever… April 8, 2017
Was it a dream, Nelly and Nancy?

Zack discovered
these tiny masterpieces
of scraped paint layers
hiding throughout
the Passages in Paris

How many years
and how many stories?
this ghostly silhouette…
bed headboard
in the demolished mansion
in Mexico City

the mystery of
Christo-ish repair
in Lisbon

SERENDIPITOUS
alignment in Paris

Anachronistic SERENDIPITY
in the History of the Ages
Parade in Kyoto

and the gondolier
checking his cell phone
in Venice

And the SERENDIPITY
of finding the perfect gift
for She Who Loves Giving

Dedicated to the memory of

Ruth Bader Ginsberg

Artist unknown

Monday, August 31, 2020

August Wondering Carpet 2020

In August

The Flying Carpet imagines
what this
Time out of Time
feels like to you…

perhaps a time of
connection
rectangles within rectangles...
our eyes and minds
are pixilated

perhaps a time of
disconnection
hives of loneliness

perhaps a time of
mourning
when mirrors are draped

perhaps a time of
time standing still

perhaps a time of
sorting
and sweeping up
the dust from parts of your life

perhaps a time of
metamorphosis
(in the pupa stage
when the caterpillar’s enzymes
almost completely dissolve his body,
the imaginal discs remain
to form wings, antennae, and the rest)

perhaps a time of
resurrection

perhaps a time of
connection without embrace…

Sending love

in all languages to you

Friday, July 31, 2020

July Pre-emptive Carpet 2020

In July,
the Pre-emptive Carpet
entreats you to
make a plan NOW
to VOTE early

VOTE by mail
in the safety of your own home

photos taken in Kansas in 2001

Imaginary soundtrack for this post:
Jimi Hendricks
The Star Spangled Banner
at Woodstock

Flag assemblage

VOTE to bring sanity to congress

VOTE to confront the devastation
caused by the
“military Industrial complex”

VOTE to heal our country

photographer unknown

This post is dedicated to John Lewis

photo by Michael Avedon,
grandson of Richard Avedon

He leaves us with these words
from an op-ed in the New York Times
published the day of his funeral
July 30, 2020
"Ordinary people

with extraordinary vision

can redeem the soul of America

by getting in

what I call good trouble,

necessary trouble.

Voting and participating

in the democratic process

are key.

The vote

is the most powerful

nonviolent change agent

you have

in a democratic society."

Resources:

vote.org

votesaveamerica.com/everylastvote

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

June Hovering Carpet 2020

During this “simultumultuous” time
of containment and explosion,
The Flying Carpet
is still hovering
and gathering together various collections
from over the years.

Here are a few:
The Bark Collection
(taken out of context
becoming something beyond)