Maze Series

I vaguely remember writing a maze generating computer program back in the eighties, but I rarely thought about mazes again after that. My interest was rekindled only when I had the idea to use a maze as texture for a pattern element. The regular grid of a maze makes it very suitable for repeat patterns that look uniform at a distance yet have a distinct – and meaningful – texture up close.

All my mazes are hand-crafted, with the assistance of a software tool I developed to help me create seamlessly repeating and slanted, square or triangular mazes that fit into my intended shapes and patterns.

Most designs in this series are seamlessly repeating perfect mazes. So, like any 'perfect maze', they each have no loops or isolated areas and one unique solution, but this solution is replicated across the pattern repeats. Often, a solution path extends beyond a single repeat, so solving a maze on a finite surface may require jumping across the maze, from one repeat to another.