Word: mazes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mutually accessible centers," by which he maintains "the charge and mystery of the maze" and manipulates the path follower back to the same spots over and over until he is ready to call in a helicopter. On the other hand, Bright says, "some people derive a sense of cosmic energy" from mazes...
Greg Bright's Maze Book, subtitled Extraordinary Puzzles for Extraordinary People, is a collection of some three dozen pen-and-ink drawings that are not only a fiendishly frustrating challenge to the cocktail-table Theseus but also are art works of amazing-so to speak-delicacy and variety. Some resemble Op art, others an elaborate electronic circuit; they look like a nexus of noodles, or paranoid doodles, or 18th century chinoiserie. Some of these Bright ideas are even designed with no exits or entrances...
Despite his flak-some say genius-for topology, Welsh-born, London-reared Greg Bright dropped out of school at 17. Ever since, he has been making mazes with paper, books and furniture and, on one project, known as the Pilton maze, he created a mile-long serpentine of ditches in a muddy meadow, most of which he dug himself, working "like a rabid mole...
...Ultimate Maze. Bright, a bachelor who wears his long blond hair in a ponytail, also works hard at such varied pursuits as composing rock music, acting and writing books and plays. After a show of his labyrinths at London's prestigious Institute of Contemporary Arts this fall, he plans to sell framed reproductions of his designs. Recently he toyed with the idea of an "ultimate" or "life-or-death" maze. He would have to construct it, says Bright, at either the North or South Pole and would use a heated tool to carve up blocks of polar...
...maze king now professes to dislike mazes: "I am not, nor ever have been, nor ever will be obsessed with mazes." But he will publish another maze book this fall. He is contemplating a maze with mirrors for walls. He also hopes to bring mazemania to the U.S., which at this stage can certainly use all the cosmic energy...