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| The Beatles Maze at the 1984 Liverpool International Garden Festival Adrian Fisher |
When was the last time you were in a maze, and when you were, how many wrong turns and I've-been-here-befores did it take before you started to wonder just what kind of twisted mind could come up with this circle of hell? Meet Britain's Adrian Fisher, maze-maker extraordinaire. Over his 36 years in the biz, Fisher has designed and built about 700 mazes all over the world. That's quite impressive for someone who got his start rather by accident. Inspired by a speech made by the Archbishop of Canterbury in which he likened the path to heaven to a maze, Fisher wrote a letter to
The Times on the history and magic of mazes. The letter so impressed a former lady-in-waiting to the queen that she asked Fisher to build a maze for her. “A maze, to my mind," says Fisher, "should be a joyful thing. Ideally, you need to get
properly lost, but find your way out at the point just before you've had
enough—during the period in which fun and disorientation are still
operating hand in hand”:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150821-inside-the-mind-of-a-mazemaker
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