Polymer Concrete Labyrinth
Intermountain Medical Center
Murray, ID

Below, top: Relaxing after completing the coloring for the labyrinth at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, UT (Salt Lake City area). We believe labyrinths offer hospitals another dimension of healing, thereby combining inner healing with the vast medical technology directed towards healing of the body. This was a wonderful site for working, both because we could see the construction of a beautiful 1,200,000 square foot hospital, and because we could see mountain ranges both to the east and to the west.

Right: We score the labyrinth pattern right into the concrete. In this case, Chuck Hunner is cutting the lunation circles (the perimeter arcs around the Chartres labyrinth pattern). We have invented many tools such as this to allow us to do this work. Only at Labyrinth Enterprises, LLC, is this technique available. After the pattern is scored into the concrete, it is hand-colored with polymer concrete. For more about this process, see: polymer.

Below: Making polymer concrete labyrinths is labor intensive. We work hard during the day, then clean up and go out for a good dinner. Here we are at a restaurant called Pine, which was excellent. For this job we had a crew of five. On the left is David Blonski, reknown musician and digeridoo player (see his website at http://www.timelessproductions.com/labyrinths/. Next is Pamela Fillmore, an active labyrinth person from Virginia. See her website at http://www.pathsofillumination.com/ .I'm in the center (Robert Ferre), and then volunteer Joal Miller from St. Louis. On the right is our installation supervisor, Chuck Hunner. Chuck is a jeweler from Asheville, NC. He keeps a blog on his website for the labyrinths he installs. To see his jewelry and his blogs, go to http://www.goldenspirit.com. I borrowed these photos from his blog on the Murray project.

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