Authors: Daniel Abraham Gandica and Hana Čičević The key to this place was obtained through imagination. Before me laid a dimension of space and time. In their vertical crypts, the memories and dreams of men long gone begged to ripple the sands of time once again by telling the glories and tragedies of heroes past. Summits of knowledge along with deep pits of human fears lay bare for the beholding eye to cast judgment and admiration—the whole human experience, condensed and recorded in ink and paper. Tomes drag me to impossible echoes from eons lost to the unforgiving and apathetic passage of time. And in this journey, the visions of the master masons and skillful artists suddenly became mine. I saw spaces between spaces, and in those spaces between spaces, I felt the desires of all the people. The desire to live, to create, to thrive, to feel life's breath and propagate it to all corners of the Earth. A quickening within me shatters the veil of reality, along with my perception of time. Time. How much time have I spent in this forsaken palace of remembrances? The realization that I cannot answer my own questions filled me with terror. I ran, only to get lost in this infinite maze, a product of my own mind, never to be seen again, unable to ever live a life worthy of being recorded along the recorded memories than now become my eternal prison… *Images produced with MidJourney and Photoshop

Maze of Memories - Collage of Impossible Spaces

Collage of a series of impossible spaces that merge with each other into a labyrinth of experiences and memories.

Space 01 - Summits of Knowledge

A view of the summits of knowledge within the maze of memories.

Space 02 - Layers of Knowledge

A view of the crypts containing the memories of the ancients.

Space 03 - Hidden Recollections

A view of hidden spaces and times within the maze of memories.

Space 04 - Lost Within a Maze of Our Own Imagination

View of the spaces that we endlessly wander through.