LABYRINTH ENTERPRISES - Key Persons
Caroline's cellphone is 0033-682695779. There is a name confusion, as the famous English guide to the cathedral is Malcolm Miller. No relation.
Jill Geoffrion is the most mystical person I have ever met, and is a great lover of Chartres. She lives there par t of every year. Her photography is exceptional, as are the pilgrimages she leads to Chartres. See her website at www.jillgeoffrion.com.
Artist Marty Cain has promoted a variation of the classical 7-circuit labyrinth seed pattern which results in a symmetrical (although not completely round) classical labyrinth (((Illustration: the mystical labyrinth in the mist in Georgia, caption sent earlier.))) , whereas instructional material written by Robert Ferré suggests enlarging the center of the classical labyrinth, in order to accommodate more people. An entirely new labyrinth design, called the Santa Rosa Labyrinth, has been introduced by Lea Goode, which combines the two most popular styles, being seven circuits, round, with interior Chartres-like turns and proportions.
Most German labyrinths are again the result of women's groups, inspired and assisted by the labyrinth community from Switzerland. Schmid and Barmettler have made more than 50 presentations to Volkshochschulen (institutions for permanent education) , Frauenzentren (women's centers), and other groups in Germany. As in Switzerland, there is a strong bent toward geomantic considerations in the design and placement of the labyrinths.
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- Fisher 's Former Design Partner
Adrian Fisher, during the same time period, has established himself as the world's foremost maze builder, with some 200 installations in such divergent locations as schools, museums, gardens and amusement parks around the world. For the most part his work is modern and multi-cursal, but a number of his designs draw inspiration from the earlier uni-cursal labyrinths. His fascination for maze puzzles started with the construction of his first hedge maze in 1975 and developed during the early 1980's, when he started his maze design business, Minotaur Designs. Early partnerships with Randoll Coate, Graham Burgess and others, brought in a number of different influences and design themes to Fisher's work, which has developed to introduce a number of radical new interactive features and construction materials to the maze design world. Along with the familiar formal hedge mazes, Fisher has installed mazes constructed of mirrors, wooden fencing panels, brick pavement, colored plastic tiles and walls of water fountains. The latest of these developments, the Maize Mazes, currently popular in the late summer cornfields of Europe and America, has seen the construction of the largest public mazes ever recorded, with path lengths approaching four miles.
Fisher's former design partner, Randoll Coate, has pioneered the use of multiple superimposed imagery for maze designs in the 20 or so examples he has been involved with. The resulting combination of ancient symbolism, familiar in labyrinth design, within a modern maze, has been most innovative and can be seen to good effect in a number of examples throughout Europe - particularly at Varmlands, Sweden and the recently planted Sun Maze & Lunar Labyrinth at Longleat, England.