MYTHIC MOJO HERE IN DOWNTOWN MESA?. . .Here is A Re-Do This post from the MesaZona Archives is dated 07 November 2019 >> RE-VISITING SMALL WONDERS HERE IN DOWNTOWN MESA:

FLASHBACK Update on this original story: "It all started about a year ago [or more] when Marie Green, a retired psychiatric nurse from Bayshore, Long island, purchased a condo in Robson Villas. She had previously rented an apartment at Cimarron but after doing some arithmetic, decided to became an owner of real estate here.

A brave, risky and yet calculated move when after settling in to her 2-story home, an open empty space next to the property on North Robson Street gave her dream a focus.

Now we all know what Sigmund Freud, founder of Psychiatry, has to say about dreams and the unconscious, but this transplanted go-getter Marie Green is working to make her dream real." 

 

HERE'S THE NEW UPDATE IN A RECENT IMAGE SENT BY MARIE GREEN 

 

 

 Actually - the MesaZona archive goes back in time even farther

Wednesday, November 02, 2016

Spontaneous Creative Place Making On-The-Ground Here In The New Urban DTMesa

Is this installation going to be a Pop-Up phenomenon or an ephemeral part  of the urban landscape landscape?  
Time will tell and it's a story your MesaZona blogger wants to write about ... how did this happen?

 
It all started about a year ago [or more] when Marie Green, a retired psychiatric nurse from Bayshore, Long island, purchased a condo in Robson Villas. She had previously rented an apartment at Cimarron but after doing some arithmetic, decided to became an owner of real estate here.
A brave, risky and yet calculated move when after settling in to her 2-story home, an open empty space next to the property on North Robson Street made her dream. 

 

Now we all know what Sigmund Freud, founder of Psychiatry, has to say about dreams and the unconscious, but this get-go Ms. Green is working to make her dream real.

 

After being out-of-touch for a while, got this email in my inbox six days ago:
"Hi, Tim,
Marie Green here.  Have a new addition to downtown Mesa.
Please come and see the Labyrinth that John Jay Pelletier created yesterday.  I found him online, don't know him, never met him.
Yesterday he showed up unannounced and created a Labyrinth on the empty lot between Robson Street Villas and Inside The Bungalow.
It was my dream for over a year.  I was researching the Labyrinth at Superstition Mountain Museum and came across his name.  Contacted him and the rest is history. "

The dream isn't history yet - still some work to do that's engaging these two active people.
If readers of this post take  a close look or zoom-in of the image taken the same day as Marie's email, you'll see the outlines of the earthwork and a little banner with information packet in front with this:

 

 

 
What is A Labyrinth?
Included on the take-away that question is addressed by saying they are ancient human symbols, appearing on most inhabited continents in pre-history, featuring the image of The Man In The Maze from the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indigenous Peoples who inhabited what is now Mesa centuries before the arrival of "The Pioneers" here in the mid 1850's.
This work-in-progress expands our understanding of "walk-ability" here in Mesa to include both art in the environment and mental health:
Why do we walk Labyrinths?
According to the on-site information, "a labyrinths is not a maze, but a walking meditation device with a single winding path from the edge to the center. There are no tricks, choices, or  dead ends. The same path is used to return to the outside. Combining a number of even older symbols, including the circle, spiral and meander, the labyrinths represents our true selves and back out into the everyday world.
Walking a labyrinths is a right-brain activity [creative, intuitive, imaginative] and can induce or enhance a contemplative or meditative state of mind. It is a tool which can clear the mind, calm our anxieties during periods of transition and stress, guide our healing, deepen self-knowledge, enhance creativity, allow for reconciliation, restore feelings of belonging to a community, and lead to personal and spiritual growth.
For many walkers, the labyrinths becomes a metaphor for the journey of life . . "

It might not be all that to everybody, but yours truly is thrilled and excited what two people who never met before are doing here in The New Urban Downtown Mesa . . very excited. 

Should any readers look at this as art here's a good read with a nice video
What is land art?

 

Saturday, November 23, 2024

MYTHIC MOJO >> RE-VISITING SMALL WONDERS HERE IN DOWNTOWN MESA: "The Labyrinth" ____Original post from the MesaZona Archives dated 07 November 2019

After all this past time, your MesaZona blogger was wondering if this is similar to "The Man in The Maze???"

The difference between mazes and labyrinths is that labyrinths have a single continuous path which leads to the center, and as long as you keep going forward, you will get there eventually. 

Mazes have multiple paths which branch off and will not necessarily lead to the center.

Taking The Time To Re-Visit One Small Wonder Here In Downtown Mesa: 

It Was Once Just Dirt

This post from the MesaZona Archives is dated 07 November 2019

Every now and then walking around the streets here in 'The Old Donut-Hole', it is a pleasure to be reminded of what is in one small spot of land that was somehow transformed - not by the brilliant minds of city-staff urban planners inside City Hall, but by one transplant from Long Island with one idea to enhance the neighborhood where she lived. 
This post from the MesaZona Archives is dated 02 November 2016, about three years. Marie Green is now "a Master Gardener" - here's that story. You might want to take the time to take a walk and see how this looks today . . . 

Spontaneous Creative Place Making On-The-Ground Here In The New Urban DTMesa

Is this installation going to be a Pop-Up phenomenon or an ephemeral part  of the urban landscape landscape?   
Time will tell and it's a story your MesaZona blogger wants to write about ... how did this happen?

It all started about a year ago [or more] when Marie Green, a retired psychiatric nurse from Bayshore, Long island, purchased a condo in Robson Villas. She had previously rented an apartment at Cimarron but after doing some arithmetic, decided to became an owner of real estate here.
A brave, risky and yet calculated move when after settling in to her 2-story home, an open empty space next to the property on North Robson Street gave her dream a focus.

Now we all know what Sigmund Freud, founder of Psychiatry, has to say about dreams and the unconscious, but this transplanted get-getter Marie Green is working to make her dream real.

After being out-of-touch for a while, got this email in my inbox six days ago:
"Hi, Tim,
Marie Green here.  Have a new addition to downtown Mesa.
Please come and see the Labyrinth that John Jay Pelletier created yesterday.  I found him online, don't know him, never met him.
Yesterday he showed up unannounced and created a Labyrinth on the empty lot between Robson Street Villas and Inside The Bungalow.
It was my dream for over a year.  I was researching the Labyrinth at Superstition Mountain Museum and came across his name.  Contacted him and the rest is history. "