Garvald Labyrinth - Saturday 17 October

Took a trip out with Geetam and Sound to Garvald, East Lothian.

Cammy's church had arranged a very simple, very beautiful labyrinth, chalked on the wooden floorboards of the village hall. I've never experienced a labyrinth with objects incorporated but this was relatively subtle - mostly low objects, so I didn't find them particularly distracting to the eye; just there if you wanted to engage with them.

When we first arrived at the hall, it was late morning, nearly midday, and as I stood at the 'gateway' to the labyrinth the sun was flowing through the diamond-paned leaded window and through the flame of the central candle - amazing shadow-flows! The labyrinth forming the circle of the world, and in the centre, a shadow tree, sunshine through dappled leaves, and the diamonds from the window extending into eggs, deep in the roots.

I'll post photos soon (few teething problems) but they don't quite do justice to the feeling of standing beneath the shade of the "world tree" -so much promise of new life from the labyrinth, and that was before I'd even walked it.