Background

A little background.

I started to draw mazes about 6 years ago in 2005.  It began one day out on the beach just standing around.  Earlier that day I had finished making a sea turtle sand sculpture and we were standing around talking to friends.  I started using my shovel to doodle in the sand drawing arbitrary lines.  As I did, I got the notion to maybe try and draw a maze.   I thought it shouldn’t be too hard. So I began to put a little more effort into it.  When I finished, it was somewhat amoebic in shape.  Yet it was my first maze (sort of) and thus began a new hobby.

Don’t get me wrong, sand castles/sculptures are a lot of fun but you begin to notice that for all the work you put into it, it doesn’t take long after you leave the beach that it gets trampled.  It is somewhat frustrating to see it destroyed in seconds what took hours to make.  I have to admit though, from the standpoint of the kid pretending to be Godzilla, its huge fun.  But I started focusing more on making mazes.

 Sand castles and mazes have similar requirements.  Both require beach space.  But for mazes, you need a whole lot more (and an outgoing tide).  And like sand castles, you also need a shovel or something for making the lines.  Once you have an area to work, you begin with your design.  Starting from the center and working your way outwards. When the design is finished with the number of lanes you want, now the time comes to start making the paths where you want people to go.  It takes concentration to keep it all straight as you’re doing them, but eventually comes together.

When all is done and you have the ‘START’ and ‘END’ completed, the maze is now ready for everyone. Now sit back and watch everyone as they go thru.