We are starting to make some real progress. Unfortunately, the labyrinth is in a sensitive state. When any of us walk out on it, we wear clean white socks. We don't wear street shoes on it now. Street shoes could scuff the coloring we are doing, Street shoes could carry some grease or dirt onto the labyrinth. So we want to keep the surface absolutely pristine right now. This damage could impact another person's labyrinth walk. Please be patient and do not enter the labyrinth until next Wednesday when we will hand over a completed labyrinth to the Church.
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We are busy 'painting' the labyrinth. I write 'painting' because we're not really putting paint on the labyrinth. We are using paint brushes to spread a polymer concrete mixture with pigment onto the labyrinth. It is a very labor intensive process. We will probably be coloring 8 hours per day until Monday. We'll seal the labyrinth with a protective layer on Tuesday or Wednesday and expect that it will be ready to walk on Thursday.
This is an image of Kathy mixing our colored concrete. She will mix 180 pounds of concrete for us before this labyrinth is done!
We got this far with our painting today. Each day, another quarter or so will be completed. This is the exciting part to me. The labyrinth is not just a bunch of cuts in the concrete any more. It's beginning to show its soul and come out into the world.
Chuck Hunner, September 16, 2005
On to the next page!
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