

Realizing that Jareth loved her, Sarah makes a wish that he would take her back to the Labyrinth, only to drift off to sleep and wake up in said Labyrinth-which has now decayed far beyond what she remembered. While seeking shelter in a motel, she discovers a book she'd accidentally packed that brings up memories of a dream she had as a teenager-a dream of a magical world and a Labyrinth, as well as the Goblin King who ruled it. Feeling distraught, she decides to go for a drive away from her current situation. Twenty-eight year old Sarah Williams has just broken up with her latest boyfriend. Return to the Labyrinth is a Labyrinth fan fiction written by ArtemisFallen, which can be read on AO3 and on Fanfiction.Net. To see a multimedia production of this piece, go to. “The more I think about it I don’t want to make it permanent, because life isn’t permanent. “It’s a reminder to myself that everything is constantly changing all the time,” Yerge said. There’s been talk of trying to make the labyrinth impervious to vandals, but Yerge isn’t sure that’s the solution. Yerge has resumed her regular maintenance. By the time Yerge showed up an hour before sunset, 20 volunteers had nearly finished putting the labyrinth back together. She posted plans on Facebook for a rebuilding party the next day. “People come from all over the world to see this labyrinth.” “I just felt like I had to do something,” Scheer said. This time is wasn’t Yerge who discovered the vandalism but Dana Scheer, a regular walker who had never met Yerge. She maintained it just as she had tended to Aguilera’s, until January, when it happened again.

It wasn’t until two years later that she gathered a few friends and set out to build a new labyrinth. Instead of rebuilding, she just walked away. Yerge said she sat and wept when she saw that someone had tossed every rock over the cliff. “'Try not to take it to heart, because it’s public art.’” “I told her, 'Don’t be surprised that sooner or later someone is going to destroy it,’” he said. Later, she reached out to Aguilera, who was thrilled with her enthusiasm but offered one word of advice. It just felt good.”Īt some point, she noticed that some of rocks looked a little out of place and took it upon herself to make it right. “I didn’t even know what a labyrinth was. Since then, her connection to it has grown in unexplainable ways. Yerge found the labyrinth by accident on a trail run in 2008. Mike Kepka/The Chronicle Show More Show Less Mike Kepka/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 6 of6 Colleen Yerge, known as the keeper of the Lands End Labyrinth, works as the fog starts to roll into San Francisco. Mike Kepka/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 5 of6 Colleen Yerge, known as the keeper of the Lands End Labyrinth, uses her feet to line up smaller rocks in the labyrinth. Mike Kepka/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 4 of6 Colleen Yerge, known as the keeper of the Lands End Labyrinth, maintains disrupted rows of rocks at the labyrinth in San Francisco, Calif.
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Mike Kepka/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 3 of6 Colleen Yerge, known as the keeper of the Lands End Labyrinth, hauls a bucket full of rocks from the beach below the labyrinth in San Francisco, Calif. Mike Kepka/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 2 of6 Colleen Yerge, known as the keeper of the Lands End Labyrinth, straightens rows of rocks at the labyrinth in San Francisco, Calif. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateġ of6 The Lands End Labyrinth, maintained by Colleen Yerge, has been the target of vandalism several times since it was originally built in San Francisco in 2004. The power of its location is fueled by an unobstructed view of the Golden Gate Bridge and the hypnotic sound of waves crashing onto rocks. The labyrinth sits on a flat part of a cliff at Lands End. In fact, since it was originally built in 2004 by Eduardo Aguilera, it has been destroyed on more than one occasion.

The rocks aren’t fastened to the ground, so anyone can change the labyrinth at any time. The 35-foot labyrinth is nothing more than a pile of beach rocks organized into 22 rows, 18 inches wide, that lead to a 2-foot center and back out again. That’s quite a gift to receive.” Colleen Yerge, known as the keeper of the Lands End Labyrinth, adjusts her hood as the fog appears in San Francisco, Calif. “I don’t think anything is going through my head. “The only thing I can say is when I get in there and start working on it, everything else disappears,” she said. They call her the keeper of the labyrinth. Armed with a blue bucket full of rocks, a pair of yellow gardening gloves and a broom, Yerge went to work returning the labyrinth to its original state.
