6th January 2010

today at the labyrinth
beautiful

January 2010

Hope to see y'all on the path
Gail & leti x

31 12 2009

i couldn't get in to walk
and if i had the snow could have obscured my way
however i did stand and look from the fence
and while there a snow storm wizzed by, awesome

Washington DC

a few images of a labyrinth in Washington DC
that i visited on a hot summer day

11th November 2009

three images blended
& faded into each other

as i experiment with different techniques and ideas
i look forward to putting my images to use
and seeing them printed up in yet to be decided formats
for my own exhibition next year
and hopefully for something organised through labyrinth friends
so many opportunities
for labyrinth

Walking on water...

every wave is a path

Looking at this photo (taken at the other end of this week), it seems a peaceful pathway, sea tracks that could be part of a labyrinth. Inspired to go to the beach again, so took a trip in between raindrops - great grey humpback waves crashing in towards me - what a difference! Too dark to take good photos by the time I got there - scratched a labyrinth in the sand, simplest possible, like the one from Garvald (below), and then had to lean into the wind to walk it. Paused and soaked in the salt spray in the centre, and then just made it out before the sea reclaimed it.

Very wet and windy today - everything's howling and rushing - rain scoots down the street, pushed along by an impatient wind, rippling in curtains like the northern lights - but an October storm instead. Thinking of the folks gone to Lismore to build a labyrinth - hoping their crossing is less eventful than crossing the street here, that the seas and the weather remain calm for the work they are about to do.

Inspired by Gail's wonderful colour work to play around with some of the photos I took - only the simplest of tools, but this was a simple colour inversion - the sea around the labyrinth - as well as trackways, this makes me think of contemporary art styles, but also bird tracks I've seen in the snow around the labyrinth - the many different forms of labyrinth, and the many creatures that use it.

How many people does it take to ignore a labyrinth?

Answer: quite a lot. Even while I was making it, a woman sat about 20 feet away and quietly watched when she thought I wasn't looking.

Headed up to the little rise (sort of mini-cliffs) after making and walking the sand labyrinth; just sat and watched the busy-ness of life go by. Lots of young families vying with oystercatchers for what lay under the sand, people walking dogs or themselves. But amazing how many people walked right past the labyrinth but didn't seem to see it.

Watched one young woman walking with friends and dogs get interested - but the group pulled her on, and she moved away.

The tide would be at least another 6 hours before it washed this away, so I hope someone was brave enough to walk it!