MAGIC CARPET FLY
WE LIVE IN A TIME OF ENCHANTMENT
Magic Carpet Fly is an invitation to reflect on the unpredictable journey of life and the small rituals that help us navigate it. Alice uses the game of Snakes & Ladders as a metaphor for luck, resilience, transformation, and the unexpected routes our lives take. In the face of ultimate powerlessness, we can still choose where to turn our gaze: gnats dancing in sunlight, quiet acts of care and altruism around us every day. Beauty, in all its forms, may not save us from suffering. But it may save the world, because the desire for it is common to us all.
“I’ve long been a fan of games as a route back to childhood memories and a simple device for human connection. We are in our bodies, in this moment, together, having fun. Their apparent simplicity so often sits alongside the greatest themes; life, death, randomness, choices, success, disappointment, the journey. The paintings sit with this idea of multiplicity. We can be lots of things at once.” (Alice)
