The Big Picture <> Focus on Details
The Labyrinth Maze printable download for the Maze Enthusiast
At first glance, this piece shows a classical seven-circuit labyrinth, and the implied task is clear: find your way to the heart of it. That is easy enough with a labyrinth, since there’s only one way in, and only one way through to the centre – just follow the winding path.
Take a closer look, though, and you’ll notice that the apparent walls of the labyrinth are riddled with gaps, and this piece turns out to be a huge maze. The task remains to find your way in to that point in the heart of the labyrinth, but this is a lot more challenging when navigating the maze.
Download The Labyrinth Maze from the drandanArt Downloads page.
(ready-to-print A4 PDF; unconditionally free to download, no email or membership needed)
Playing with scale and varying perspectives is a key theme in my art (as well as my pre-artistic career, actually). It is inherently pertinent to my halftone maze series, of course, but with this piece I saw a particularly apt opportunity to contrast the ‘big picture’ view with a focus on details, and the implications these differing perspectives can have.
If I was writing this on LinkedIn, I could probably build it into a great metaphor and wax lyrical about pitfalls of over-simplification versus getting bogged down in details, different leadership styles, ramifications for team communications blah blah… but I won’t do that here. ; )
Instead, I’ll make a more practical point that when I designed this maze – after the Da Vinci Maze and the Sphere Maze, both of which ended up as big, monolithic mazes – I tried to make this one less intimidating to solve by adding an internal structure of smaller tiles. This effectively simplifies the 115x161 cell maze into a 7x5 cell maze, which should make it less daunting to tackle. Just another way of playing with scale!
The original Labyrinth Maze art print is available at Fine Art Printing.
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There are more printables – colouring mazes, colouring pages, and more art mazes – available for free on the drandanArt Downloads page. All downloads are free and unconditional, with no email or membership required.
On the same website (drandanArt | andygiger.com) you will also find more info and links to the original art and designs that these printable art mazes are based on.