Good news...
....the nice people at tower Hamlets cemetery Park are remaking their chalk labyrinth - it was a feature that had largely disappeared and now it is back
Labyrinths have a long history in Landscape.... with the word originating for the description of the Bronze Age Minoan palace of Knossos by later Greeks (confused at the mass of intersecting rooms and corridors without streets and individual houses
For Christians they have afforded virtual pilgrimages -a way to go on a journey whilst staying in a single place, and by travel ("travail" work) do penance for sins. They also symbolise and turn into a psycho-drama the journey of a soul towards perfection .
They have entered the modern era as aids to meditation and mindedness -- and a reference to landscape and landscape art, as in Richard Long's
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For general situation and ambience - here are some pictures of THCP
....the nice people at tower Hamlets cemetery Park are remaking their chalk labyrinth - it was a feature that had largely disappeared and now it is back
Labyrinths have a long history in Landscape.... with the word originating for the description of the Bronze Age Minoan palace of Knossos by later Greeks (confused at the mass of intersecting rooms and corridors without streets and individual houses
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| http://www.dilos.com/region/crete/minoan_labyrinth.html |
They have entered the modern era as aids to meditation and mindedness -- and a reference to landscape and landscape art, as in Richard Long's
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| Rhein Mud (2013) http://www.richardlong.org/Exhibitions/2013/rheinmud.html |
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For general situation and ambience - here are some pictures of THCP
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