Maze
A labyrinth or a maze is one of the oldest symbols of humanity, dating back to 2500BC. It’s also a motif found across many cultures and continents. A complex man-built structure, resembling both a map of a spiritual dance and the biological structures of the human brain is intriguing and at the same time frightening. In some traditions mazes, shapes as circles represent a meandering but purposeful journey: a journey or path to our own center and back again out into the world. Passing through a maze is always difficult, but if in the end you find what you were looking for, even it’s just a way out is rewarding, as any hero’s journey. One person enters the maze and different one comes out of it, even though the face is the same.
The project is fed and informed by the ideas of Carl’s Jung’s collective unconscious and individualisation and Joseph Campbell’s lectures on ancient myths and how they influence our perceptions of the world today. Circles and spheres represent both wholeness, connection and heavy weight of inner contemplations.
All Directions
Every crossroad has a center where you can go back to in case you face a dead-end. Maybe there’s no point to search for a meaning, but rather for the experience of being alive.
Both Ways
I was so blind in the beginning, I can see clearly now. I’m still friends with the old me, she made me who I am today. My future self will be different and she’ll be friends with me too.
Decision
The option of not going into the maze is an illusion. You were born inside of it. Now it’s your decision if you want to stay inside and wander forever or find a way to the world outside.
Go North
North is where all the evil, scary and unpleasant things come from. So all the heroes go North, even though everyone on their way advises otherwise.
Halo
Can’t you see that all the baggage that you have so proudly collected just weighs you down and does not let you go? There’s a whole a new life of freedom in front of you, which at one point again will become a drain and the cycle will repeat itself.
Hero’s Adventure
An adventure is always undertaken to break free from the everyday reality and in some way to escape it. There’re bits and pieces that are just not right. The time has come for a change for everything around you, but it has to start with yourself.
Rapture
You’re right in the center. Not winning, not loosing. Just witnessing it all. In Rapture.
Shift
Hold both ends, you need them both to be alive. This is the transformation you’ve been looking for. Not conquering the one and destroying the other.
Hold the Light
Hold the light. You’ll need it on the way through the darkest times. Just don’t forget that the light won’t be visible without the darkness.
Minotaur
The monstrous figure doesn’t have to be more scary than a reflection in the mirror. But is does take the courage to face it nevertheless.
Split
The maze always leads to where it has to lead and can’t lead anywhere else. So what if you take the wrong path, you’ll just return to the beginning and start all over again.
