Hexabrynth
Mar. 20th, 2005 04:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

My friend hamish makes large-scale interactive sculptures. His current work is a giant hexagonal labyrinth
(lab´ rinth´) A circular pattern featuring a serpentine but clear path to the center. Labyrinths were set as mosaics into the floors of Gothic cathedrals and represented a symbolic journey to Jerusalem. Pilgrims would walk the labyrinth to the center and back out again in a kind of walking meditation made of cloth, with an organic demon inflatable sculpture at the centre- the course of the labyrinth is nearly half a kilometer! Walking the labyrinth, round and round, is a meditative journey. Direction and orientation are irrelevant, all that matters is the journey.
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Date: 2005-03-21 12:34 am (UTC)we need to make a date- I need to install ICQ or whatever chat software kids are using these days and have some good long conversations with you...
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Date: 2005-03-20 12:46 pm (UTC)Isn't this true about so many things in life?
Grab the day by the balls!
Blaze a trail that makes no sense.
Get lost and then find your way back.
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Date: 2005-03-21 12:26 am (UTC)Re: balls
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Date: 2005-03-20 10:01 pm (UTC)Ah, but Growler, don't forget the daemon within!
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Date: 2005-03-21 12:32 am (UTC)In fact the best part was the small social gathering in the centre- the clink of glasses, the quiet chat, the cushions for relaxing on. You could hear the sounds as you walked around the labyrinth, as I walked I couldnt help but meditate on the role of social interaction in my own journey.
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Date: 2005-03-21 11:00 am (UTC)You and