Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Enter the Labyrinth

Istvan Orosz, poster for the play Medeia by Sophokles
James Jean, Maze, 2008
Jaime Zollars, The Maze, She Breathes, 2009 

Labyrinths and mazes have always been metaphors for the human quest. A labyrinth is unicursal, meaning it has only one path and no dead ends. A maze is multicursal, with a series of paths that require many excursions of trial and error to escape; a metaphor for transcending pattern in order to achieve release. 

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