1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

David is putting the finishing touches sealing his side of the labyrinth. You can see a small square patch of the lighter colored concrete still to be sealed between his feet and the paint roller. Michael is sitting on the right after finishing his side of the labyrinth. Robert is in between David and Michael.

The sealer is an acrylic that we thin with xylene. It rolls on evenly, then the xylene evaporates leaving a clear plastic coating to protect the concrete. The smell of xylene evaporating is the main reason we seal the pattern after normal school hours. Notice that everyone in the picture is wearing a respirator.

The Details are what set our labyrinths so far above the labyrinths of our competitors.

We often invest a half a day cleaning up the lines, touching up our color, making sure that our pattern's details are crisp.

I caught Michael on his hands and knees. He is detailing the lines with a small diamond knife. We do this for every edge in the labyrinth, by hand.

This is one of the reasons that this work is so hard to do. Crawling around all day is hard work. Look at how much babies sleep! Normal humans walk and sit on chairs. Labyrinth makers invest a lot of time getting up and getting down, crawling around on their hands and knees. There are only a few ways to get close enough to our work - hands and knees, left side seated, right side seated, and evenly seated. :-) So that's what we do.

I tried laying down and detailing but I didn't have enough upper body mobility to do the work!

Kathy is using a modified evenly seated posture...modified by a little wheeled cart. It's pretty comfy and allows us to scoot around with a little less effort.

Robert's got the evenly seated posture down to a 'T'.

I forgot to mention David's use of the "Buddha" seating variation. It's certainly my favorite.

See my labyrinth jewelry here!

Chuck Hunner, September 20, 2005

No next page yet!