Thanksgiving 2024

I usually begin a Thanksgiving work in late October as I think I work best with autumn and fall colors. By the time I finish it is about Thanksgiving time and this year is just a little early.

My art is in mandala form and created on a Cartesian matrix, that is I utilize a canvas of, in this case, 3600 x3600 pixils. The mandalas that I create are built around a pattern of intertwining mazes and labyrinths. In the case of this piece, the width of each ''wall'' of the maze/labyrinth is ten pixils.

Once I have the matrix established I begin to create the maze/labyrinth. With this piece I formed the central cross with descending color steps around which I form the maze/labyrinth system. I work, in this case on one eighth of the canvas. Once that eighth is finished I copy it, paste it rotate it 90 degrees and flip it over and match the copy to the original eighth. Taking this quarter I repeat the process matching the four quarters together for the whole piece.

At this point, I begin to add my colors. Until this point, I have only used different shades of grey that can later be filled in with the colors I choose

For some odd reason depending upon what focus I use to view that grey page, be it in close so that each pixil is visible or far out so that the entire piece is visible, different patterns emerge that I can chose from to begin the choices of accenting and colors I will use.

Each piece is done with a resolution of 300 pps that will print up to a forty eight by forty eight square print. In order to get the entire piece downloaded for this format the piece needs to be diminished by half.



Here is a closer look at the maze/labyrinth system

a reply to: BingoMcGoof

It’s beautiful! How many hours does it take to make something like that?

So, is this an actual "maze", like a starting point and an ending point with a continuous line from beginning to end...OR is this just a graphic piece?

If maze...then where is the beginning / starting point, and where is the end / exit?

I love mazes, especially difficult ones. I'd love to understand this one...if it's truly a "maze".

Note - I don't see any entry or exit points from the different boxes, but maybe I'm missing them.

Thanks.

a reply to: BingoMcGoof

That's really nice.

a reply to: Myhandle

Days. Weeks sometimes, depending. In a manner I see my art as architectural, in that it is made up of thousands of smaller pieces that all must fit together perfectly. Sometimes being off one little pixil, if not caught in time can cause the entire project to be off kilter when I put the pieces into a final mandala. Sometimes I have worked for long periods of time only in the end to find that I made a major miscalculation and I need to dump it.

Thanks for the question My.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk


It's not so much a maze or just a labyrinth. A maze is a long path with a lot of dead ends. A labyrinth is one long continuous path with no ending eventually coming back to it's origin like a mobius strip..


So, if you look at that blow up I posted, you can see any number of ''dead ends'' that end up as a point at the center of a ''horseshoe'' curve or a one hundred and eighty degree turn in the labyrinth. So that labyrinth has no beginning and no end
The maze aspect is not a traditional maze as such. There is no specific beginning that one can start at unless one wishes to find any of those points I mentioned above, and no end or goal really unless one wished to find they way out of the entire maze/labyrinth system.

I stared making mazes for my kids almost fifty years ago but as mazes with all their odd twists and turns did not lend themselves to symmetrical work that I enjoy I quit doing those and now work only with what can be done symmetrically.

Than you fly.