[chainsawpunk]

[portalibis]

Labyrinth on the portico of the cathedral of San Martino at Lucca, Tuscany, Italy

"Here is the labyrinth which the Cretan Daedalus built, from which no one who entered could ever find the way out, for inside it the Minotaur devoured them, and it was closed by Ariadne’s thread."

[orcaking]

A bull among the flowers 🌷🌼

available as a print through may 2026

[droawsy]

"For a moment I was flying"

[bovinefigureoftheday]

Bovine figure of the day: Sylvac Bull

[levelbrooklyn]

The Labyrinth

Zeus could never untangle the nets of stone that surround me. I have forgotten the men I once was; I follow the hateful path of monotonous walls which is my destiny. Straight galleries which curve in secret circles as the years wear on. Parapets cracked by the usury of so many days. In the pale dust I have deciphered tracks that I fear. The air has brought to me in the concave afternoons a braying or the echo of a braying, desolate voice. I know that in the shadow lurks the Other, whose lot is to fatigue the long solitudes that weave and unweave this Hades and to unnerve my blood and devour my death. We two look for each another. I wish that this were the last day of the waiting

Jorge Luis Borges (translated by David Bowles, October 2003)

Marmorskulptur eines Minotaurus. Muskulöser Männertorso mit Stierkopf nach griechischer bzw. römischer Vorlage. H 79 cm Ergebnis 14700 € Bildquelle: Auktionshaus Michael Zeller

[bovinefigureoftheday]

Bovine figure of the day: Majolica Bison Humidor

[gorjee-art]

Picture that. In your dreams.

JUST KIDDING I DREW MANY MINOTAURS 20 SPECIFICALLY INCLUDING THIS ONE. Wanted to do some fun lighting practice.

[franciscolemos]

Sneaking away, the child steals cookies whenever Pasiphaë is distracted.

[vicekillx]

Moo

As much as i love moos i somehow never made one??? He needs a name still. Ideally something Greek (or Minoan?) but I’m open to Spanish too. He’s dark colored, surprisingly gentle and docile, and probably being kept somewhere against his will

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[earthen-were]

It's You

2021

cone 1 stoneware, underglaze, glaze

[pecuburi]

[toskarin]

"I'm having fun, I enjoy this game" insists friend who just broke their voice screaming at walter for hitting the minotaur

[hellenhighwater]

I've started the process of documentation on the last labyrinth, which is...an undertaking.

[hellenhighwater]

I forgot my favorite picture!

[hellenhighwater]

And here’s "Asterion."

[hellenhighwater]

And our middlest boy, "A Crack in the Labyrinth. "

[avocadolaw]

Skyphos number two! Inspired by the very talented @hellenhighwater ‘s Minotaur sculpture, a painting by Flandrin, a sculpture by Paul Cabet, and a very handsome charolais bull from Google images.

Other skyphos here

[hellenhighwater]

[hellenhighwater]

Someone just reblogged this and I was reminded of a couple things I did deliberately while making this that I don't know if anyone actually noticed. (Which perhaps means they were unsuccessful, but whatever; the intent was there.)

The height of the crack in the wall is very low. The implication is intended to be that he started clawing at this wall when he was much, much smaller. At this size, if the figure stood, it would nearly touch the ceiling.

The marks are mostly in clusters of 4 parallel lines, implying that he was indeed clawing. His hands are hidden from view, so you don't know if they're damaged.

His position near the center of this curve means that viewers can almost never see his face, or all of his body at once. He's hiding.

The cluster of center columns means that most of your view of him when looking straight on is like seeing him through jail bars.

The absence of rubble from the wall makes it unclear if he has just stopped momentarily, or if he gave up on widening this hole a long time ago; the seated pose also makes it clear that at least for the moment, he has stopped even trying to escape.

The curved shape of the ceiling isn't appropriate to the architecture of the actual origin of this story, but I chose it in order to make the labyrinth feel more compressed and to put the inside in a deep enough shadow that the crack would always shine with bright light in comparison, blanking out the view from the minotaur's side unless you look very very closely.

[hellenhighwater]

This piece went home with its new owner today! Safe travels, Asterion.

[intactics]

[pushing my glasses up with an air of unwarranted superiority and gesturing toward a painting without a minotaur] the Minotaur is implied.