LABYRINTH, THE SECOND

Acrylic on canvas, 1 x 1 FT. Several years ago I painted a piece that really had a wonderful resonance with me called “Labyrinth”. I had been revisiting some Greek mythology and the Minotaur for some reason and wondered, “What is the difference between a labyrinth and maze?” With that question, I never thought I’d end up down a rabbit hole! But there’s where I went… the only difference between a labyrinth and maze it that a maze has false directions and traps. A labyrinth, on the other hand, is winding path with a clear direction to its center and back. I thought about Theseus and his borrowed, golden thread. I thought about different church courtyards though the centuries that had the labyrinths as a point of meditative space, often reflecting the walk of the Passion of Christ. I thought of what a labyrinth might look like on a 2D plain. How might a painting give the viewer a path to ponder? There’s the golden walkway folding in on itself, the cardinal and ordinal directions denoted i