This steep-pole maze was loaded with 4”x 6” colored and flavored clear, hard-candy tiles. The tiles were sheathed in crispy packaging, then stapled to plastic straps within steel frames, creating large, primary-colored panel-walls that were assembled to build the structure of a maze.
As one walked through the maze and looked through the panels, the others behind would create secondary colors. Being edible, the viewing public was invited to eat the work and enjoy the candy flavors: Pineapple, tart cherry, licorice, cinnamon etc.
As the candy-panels were picked, the remaining panels and patterns created new secondary and tertiary colors, making the public integral in the work’s progression.
Commissioned by the Arts Extension Service for the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
New England Artist Festival, University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA), 1983
