Vancouver, home of the chalk labyrinth, because we are good natured and/or easily confused pic.twitter.com/PnryG00EyF
— lex lynds (@lex911) May 28, 2018
Vancouver, home of the chalk labyrinth, because we are good natured and/or easily confused pic.twitter.com/PnryG00EyF
— lex lynds (@lex911) May 28, 2018
Thank you for the Props!
Hmmm…. This is not a Chartres Design.
Though labeling it as such is totally understandable.
Most people have never encountered a Labyrinth.
The few people who happen upon Labyrinths usually find the popular Chartres Style 11 or mini Chartres 7 Lane Labyrinth.
Ergo, all Labyrinths look the same when you’ve only ever encountered the same popular design.
I have been considering what to name this different design of mine which was initially inspired by a 650 year old drawing in the marginalia of an Italian Labyrinth Maker’s (?) notebook.
“Still digging” …as the Blogger saying goes.
We’ll properly name this design.
…Eventually.
Somebody made a Chartres-style labyrinth just west of Olympic Village. pic.twitter.com/8OSoEign0l
— 42four (@424ds) May 23, 2018
Nice. Thanks. It provided me with an opportunity to bore my SO with my architectural history degree.
— 42four (@424ds) May 23, 2018
…A Crop Circle made of Stone is a…. Stone Circle.
Or, a Stone Labyrinth, which is what I made here,
Vancouver’s own Spyglass Place Labyrinth.
I kind of surprised how much more this stone Labyrinth I made at the south end of Spyglass Place has been photographed and shared online, compared with my guessing that it might be so when I began placing the first few rocks…
“🤔” Indeed.
Though this image was just posted, this is a wonderful photograph of the Vancouver Public Labyrinth before I re-arranged the rocks from these concentric circles into its current and more complex final design.
Quite surprised how long lasting this chalk Labyrinth has turned out to be.
Perhaps there are unique conditions at this very spot, the material of the paver bricks, the sea air around this pocket of South East False Creek, and being a corner that is less frequently walked upon yet beside the desire line of a path where most everyone walks beside.
Who knows?
Last time I re-visited this Labyrinth, I only had to re-chalk red into a few hearts, and re-outline the outer-most perimeter circle wall.