My journey into creating mazes started with an effort to stay awake in some of my undergrad courses. I was just doing these sort of single line, meandering doodles in the margins and pages of my notebooks as just a way to give my brain a little bit more to do. Then one day a friend asked me if I was drawing mazes, which I was not, but that question caused me to think about these designs differently, and that led me to understanding what I would need to change about what I was doing so the designs could work as a maze. The technical change was minimal, but now my doodles were interactive. 

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With practice, this idea continued to evolve. The mazes started to look like different things, and even specific people. I made mazes with different materials for different effects - some had story elements, multiple solutions, or even solutions that revealed secret messages. I continue to find new things to try to do with mazes, but sometimes I still go back to making them just so I don't fall asleep at inappropriate times. 

 

I still struggle with this from time to time.