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A man and his passion...The silhouette of a great friend (maritimelight).
A silhouette is most commonly a human portrait in profile, in black. They do not show any facial expression. Silhouettes are most often made by a skilled silhouette artist by looking at a subject's profile, whether in person or from a photograph, and simply cutting out their likeness freehand.
Two hundred years ago, long before the camera was invented, someone wishing to have an inexpensive portrait created of their loved ones would have visited a silhouette artist. Within minutes and using only a pair of scissors and a skillful eye, he would have produced a little image with a remarkable resemblance to his subject.
In America, Silhouettes were highly popular from about 1790 to 1840. The invention of the camera signaled the end of the Silhouette as a widespread form of portraiture. However, their popularity is being reborn in a new generation of people who appreciate the Silhouette as a nostalgic and unique way of capturing a loved one's image.
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There are no words to describe the cathartic experience of walking within the Labyrinth. It is 12.87 meters (42.22 feet) across and 300 meters (984.25 feet) long but one does not walk across it. One gently and slowly traces its path with your steps while contemplating an idea; any idea. The difference between a maze and a labyrinth is that a maze is designed to trap and confound you, while a labyrinth serves exactly the opposite purpose. It was purposefully constructed to give you time to be alone with your thoughts and feelings. It is a time to reflect on the many fractured emotions that drive all of us onward. Like the many glints of light upon the surface of a rippling lake, the seat of our passion can only be regarded from a distance. By the time that you have completed its course, you will have had time to digest your feelings and ultimately reaching the center, you are renewed with purpose and the strength to complete life’s journey. As I'm sure that you can tell, I have done this and these are the feelings that I carried away with me. I have treasured them from that day to this day. I had never truly realized before what a pilgrimage could do for me. Even as I pen this doggerel, my jaw hangs slack, in disbelief, before the wisdom of the European cultures gathered from across the millennia. I recommend that each of you reading this make your way to Chartres, France and the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres.
I've been making a labyrinth mold for some pots I'm planning, but just loved the look of the plasticine so much I had to take a photo before covering it all in plaster
Size: Head and body up to 18mm long
Distribution: Found in Wales and England, especially in the south counties
Months seen: June to October
Habitat: Found in long, rough grass, hedgerows and low down on trees
Food: Flies and other small insects
Special features: The abdomen of the labyrinth spider features a central pale brown stripe with a darker, more greyish band on either side. The darker bands have tiny white dashes or chevron markings running through them.
Labyrinth spiders produce a sheet web. It's so thick in places that it appears white in colour.
The web can be at ground level or up to 1.5 metres from the ground. The majority are found around 60cm from the ground. They are nearly always built along a south facing hedgerow, verge or grassy bank.
At one end there is a funnel shaped retreat, which can cause alarm because it is sometimes confused with other more dangerous funnel web spiders. Further down the funnel is a labyrinth of tunnels which gives this spider its name.
If you could find your way through the tunnels you would eventually find the reason for this mysterious construction. Hidden in the centre is the egg sac containing all the developing young.
The females remain with the young until they are ready to leave the web. Sometimes they die before the spiderlings go, and in this case the young will eat their mother.
Hovering above the rather faded labyrinth at St. Hilda’s Anglican Church in Sechelt.
Walking the labyrinth is an ancient spiritual act that is being rediscovered during our time.
Usually constructed from circular patterns, labyrinths are based on principles of sacred geometry. Sometimes called “divine imprints”, they are found around the world as sacred patterns that have been passed down through the ages for at least 4,000 years. When a pattern of a certain size is constructed or placed on the ground, it can be used for walking meditations and rituals.
Labyrinths and their geometric cousins (spirals and mandalas) can be found in almost every religious tradition. For example, the Kabbala, or Tree of Life, is found in the Jewish mystical tradition. The Hopi Medicine Wheel, and the Man in the Maze are two forms from the Native American labyrinth traditions. The Cretan labyrinth, the remains of which can be found on the island of Crete, has seven path rings and is the oldest known labyrinth (4,000 or 5.000 years old).
In Europe, the Celts and later the early Christian Celtic Church revered labyrinths and frequently built them in natural settings. Sacred dances would be performed in them to celebrate solar and religious festivals. During the Middle Ages, labyrinths were created in churches and cathedrals throughout France and Northern Italy. These characteristically flat church or pavement labyrinths were inlaid into the floor of the nave of the church.
The Chartres Labyrinth
The labyrinth constructed at St. Hilda’s is an 11-circuit labyrinth. It is a replica of the one embedded in the floor of Chartres Cathedral in France. The design of this labyrinth, and many of the other church labyrinths in Europe, is a reworking of the ancient labyrinth design in which an equal- armed cross is emphasized and surrounded by a web of concentric circles. As with many Christian symbols, this was an adaptation of a symbol; that is known to have predated the Christian faith. This medieval variation is considered a breakthrough in design because it is less linear than the preceding, more formal, Roman design that developed from quadrant to quadrant. The medieval design made one path as long as possible, starting at the outer circumference and leading to the centre. Fraught with twists and turns, the path’s meanderings were considered symbolic representations of the Christian pilgrim’s journey to the Holy City of Jerusalem and of one’s own journey through life. This classical design is sometimes referred to as “the Chartres Labyrinth” due to the location of its best known example.1 The labyrinth was built at Chartres in the early 13th century (~ 1215 A.D.). No one knows the source of this classical 11-circuit labyrinth design, and much of its spiritual meaning and use has been lost.
The tradition of pilgrimage is as old as religion itself. Worshippers on pilgrimage traveled to holy festivals whether to solstice celebrations, to Mecca to gather around the Ka’aba for the high holy days of Islam, or to Easter festivals in the Holy City of Jerusalem. Pilgrimages were a mixture of religious duty and holiday relaxation for the peasant, the commoner and rich land owner alike. The journey was often embarked on in groups with designated places to stay at night. The pilgrims were restless to explore the mystical holy places, and many were in search of physical or spiritual healing.
The Christian story, which emphasized the humanity of Christ, fascinated the pilgrims. In the Middle Ages, most people did not read. As a result, they were much more oriented to the senses than we are today. They learned the story by traveling to Jerusalem to walk where Jesus walked, to pray where he prayed, and to experience, in a solemn moment, where he died. Unlike today, Pilgrims encountered the truth of the Christian mystery through an ongoing intimacy with all their senses.
When a person committed his or her life to Christ in the early Middle Ages, they sometimes made a vow to make a pilgrimage to the Holy City of Jerusalem. However, by the 12th century when the Crusades swept across Europe and the ownership of Jerusalem was in tumultuous flux, travel became dangerous and expensive. In response to this situation, the Roman Church appointed seven pilgrimage cathedrals to become “Jerusalem” for pilgrims. Consequently, in the pilgrimage tradition, the path within the labyrinth was called the Chemin de Jerusalem and the center of the labyrinth was called “New Jerusalem”.
The walk into the labyrinth marked the end of the physical journey across the countryside and served as a symbolic entry-way into the spiritual realms of the Celestial City. The image of the Celestial City – taken straight out of the Book of Revelation to John – captivated the religious imagination of many during the Middle Ages. The wondrous Gothic cathedrals, with painted walls either in bright, even gaudy colours, or else white-washed, were designed to represent the Celestial City. The stained glass windows – when illuminated by the sun – created the sense of colourful, dancing jewels, allowing the pilgrim to experience the awesome mystery of the City of God.”
Symbolism and Meanings Found in the Chartres Labyrinth
Circles and Spirals
The circle is the symbol of unity or union and it is the primary shape of all labyrinths. The circle in sacred geometry 4 represents the incessant movement of the universe (uncomprehensible) as opposed to the square which represents comprehensible order. The labyrinth is a close cousin to the spiral and it, too, reflects the cyclical element of nature and is regarded as the symbol of eternal life.
The labyrinth functions like a spiral, creating a vortex in its center. Upon entering, the path winds in a clockwise pattern. Energy is being drawn out. Upon leaving the center the walker goes in a counter clockwise direction. The unwinding path integrates and empowers us on our walk back out. We are literally ushered back out into the world in a strengthened condition.
The Path
The path lies in 11 concentric circles with the 12th being the labyrinth center. The path meanders throughout the whole circle. There are 34 turns on the path going into the center. Six are semi-right turns and 28 are 180 turns. So the 12 rings that form the 11 pathways may symbolically represent, the 12 apostles, 12 tribes of Israel or 12 months of the year. 5 Twelve is a mystical number in Christianity. In sacred geometry three represents heaven and four represents earth. Twelve is the product of 3 x 4 and, therefore, the path which flows through the whole is then representative of all creation.
www.sthilda.ca/pages/labyrinth
You can view a larger version of this panorama here:
www.360cities.net/image/labyrinth-at-st-hildas-anglican-c...
This High Dynamic Range 360° aerial panorama was stitched from 105 bracketed photographs with PTGUI Pro, tone-mapped with Photomatix, processed with Color Efex, and touched up in Affinity Photo and Aperture.
Original size: 18000 × 9000 (162.0 MP; 684.31 MB).
Location: Sechelt, British Columbia, Canada
labyrinth in the snow, in the breeze it would slowly soften and the steps that made it would disappear.
This is a macro of a deer skull. Very close up -- at the winding, worm-like seam at the top center of the animal's head, between the antlers.
This quilt pattern called for 9 of the labyrinth blocks. I decided 4 would make a nice wall hanging. HA! I forgot to take the 18 inches of border into account. Finished at ~62" square. Looking like another lap quilt is born.
Long Sleeve photo of Labyrinth.
Design: Wendy Bernard
Model: Mitsukai
Photography: Jennifer Hansen
Technical Editor: Danna Spiro
Stunt Stitching: Sarah Wilson
The interior of the temple is a labyrinth of rooms, stairways, corridors, cellars, tunnels and upper rooms of all sizes at different levels, and nooks and crannies complex enough to have caused early travelers into believing it to be the real labyrinth at the Hawara Pyramid. Specifically, there are fourteen rooms on either side of central corridor that leads to three chapels
Taken @Fayoum, Egypt
Forming the border of Nocturnus, the Kelra Labyrinth serves as a deterrent on any soul foolish enough to enter. Guarded by the minotaurs and reptrians, fresh meat is always welcome in the maddening mazes within Kelra. Doomed souls will often head towards the watch tower at the center in the hopes of spying an exit, yet they aren't the only species looking to exploit the tower.
See more here on Flickr or over at Eurobricks in the Guilds of Historica
"Labyrinth of Memory" and/or "Listen to your heart!"
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But if you can not find stars anymore which you would be able to follow---Please do never give up!!!!!! It is the labyrinth of memories which helps you to listen to your heart.
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“I need you. I don't know why, but every now and then in my life, for no reason at all, I need you.” by the Labyrinth.
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Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. by The Wonder Years
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. by Oscar Wilde
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Love can touch us one time - And last for a lifetime - And never let go till we're one by Celine Dion
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The leaves of memory seemed to make--A mournful rustling in the dark. by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Laura Pausini - Ascolta Il Tuo Cuore
... of Venice, Italy, 2010
Original image, not post processed, not cropped, taken with Zenit TTL.
Explore May 7, 2010 #250
2008 Winter Solstice Lantern Festival in Vancouver, BC at the Roundhouse Community Centre in Yaletown
LABYRINTH OF LIGHT
The labyrinth has long been used for meditation, prayer and sites of ritual in various cultures around the world. Created with over 700 pure beeswax candles, the winter solstice labyrinth invites you to warm yourself in a self-guided ceremony intended to help release old attachments and envision new possibilities as the darkest night of the year births a new season.
Known as the Bhulbhulaiya, this labyrinth has passages linked to each other through 489 identical doorways! Build in 1784, Wikipedia says this is the only maze existing in India.
I dont really know much about this rusty looking sculpture of a man, other than hes rather detailed in the places you would rather he wasnt.
Standing aside a well carved out labyrinth in the grass at Ninewells hospital on a very cold frosty morning. it seems a strange collection of ideas thrown together in a corner. But sometimes strange offers photographic opportunities.