Peter Barrett

"This piece combines two things I'm interested in right now: gardening and geometry. This is taken from a straight-up ancient labyrinth design. I like the idea of a circle that's completely comprised of one uninterrupted meandering path." --Peter Barrett, resident artist


Sunflowers and morning glories planted along the path will eventually create living walls which will surround us as we make our way to the interior and back out again.

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The piece is based on the ancient form above, taken from a manuscript entitled Graphea Aurea Urbis Romae. The following text is also from the manuscript, and below is Peter's original sketch used to lay out the piece.

Habeat et in diarodino laberinthum fabrefactum ex auro et margaritas, in quo sit Minotaurus, digitum ad os tenens ex smaragdo factus, quia sicut non valet quis laberinthum scrutare, ita non debet consilium dominatoris propolare.

"Let there be represented on it (the Emperor's robe) a labyrinth of gold and pearls, in which the Minotaur, made of emerald, holding his finger to his mouth, thus signifying that, just as none may know the secret of the labyrinth, so none may reveal the monarch's counsels."




Peter Barrett was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1968. He studied in Rome, Italy during his college years at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. He continued his education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois where he obtained his Master of Fine Arts in painting. Beginning in 2001 Barrett has done several one person shows. His show "Retroflex" was featured in the Artcore Gallery in Toronto, Canada in 2002. In both 2003 and 2006 his work was displayed at Ingalls & Associates in Miami, Florida. In 2007 his work "Morphologies" was shown at Supreme Trading in Brooklyn, NY. Barrett currently resides and works in Woodstock and Brooklyn, NY.

To see Peter's other work, go to:
www.barrettart.com