The Empress
WITH Gundula Thormaehlen Friedman,
concrete, shells, gemstones, oolitic boulders, native plants,
140’ x 90’ 2020
“The labyrinth is a sort of "mind map", a tool, a container for anything that you need it to contain. Possibly a map of the orbital path of Mercury. A structure that quite literally helps with navigating the twists and turns of life. I think it was used as a tool to explain the path to God to the illiterate in the middle ages, although it is much older than that. A prayer that you walk, move through. It's a "living form,” meaning that it is mutable and can change to fit whatever it needs to deal with, in all senses. In the middle of the labyrinth is Nothing-- which is also the ever-expanding Heart. When you follow the path, at the point you feel you are closest to the center, is also the point where you are suddenly the furthest away from it. Not to worry, the path turns again...You don't quite know where you are going ever, and yet you are also not lost. "The Empress" has emeralds buried beneath her, literally.” - DF
Together with: Jean Sarmiento of SunKeeper Solutions native plantings,Violet Handforth animations, Cherry Handforth additional cinematography, Patricia Romeu, Amanda Sanfilippo, Stefania Barigelli, Alex Peraza, Bianca Gonzalez, Houston Cypress, Mark Handforth, Michael Jackson, Hagen Rottke of Miami Aerial, Lynn Tisza crystals