Labyrinth at J. Owen Grundy Park
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
On the Jersey City waterfront at the foot of the exchange district, artist Katelyn Halpern built a permanent public labyrinth into J. Owen Grundy Park, a few steps from the PATH trains.
On the Jersey City waterfront at the foot of the exchange district, artist Katelyn Halpern built a permanent public labyrinth into J. Owen Grundy Park, a few steps from the PATH trains. It is a park labyrinth in the fullest civic sense: no gate, no schedule, an invitation to walk carved into one of the densest skylines in the country. The Labyrinth Locator's record lists it as Medieval 6-circuit; installed June 22, 2019.
Every labyrinth is a walking practice, not a puzzle: a single path winds to a center and back out, and the walk is done slowly, as prayer or meditation. The pattern descends from the medieval pavement labyrinth at Chartres, and the modern urban revival began in the 1990s when Lauren Artress brought replicas of that path to American congregations and public grounds through Veriditas and the Labyrinth Society, whose World-Wide Labyrinth Locator now catalogs thousands. There is no branching and no trick to the path; walkers of every religion and none use it.
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