The Minotaur in House of Leaves The Minotaur in House of Leaves The Minotaur or Minotauros was the son born of lust to Queen Pasiphae of Crete and a bull. He had the body of a man and the head of a bull and was more beast than human. The creature was banished by King Minos to reside in the centre of a labyrinth in Knossos built by the ingenious architect Daedalus and his son Icarus. The Minotaur was nursed by Queen Pasiphae as a child but grew to devour humans, so he was safely put away in the maze contrived so carefully and trickily that
The Maze (painting) didn’t seem able or interested in untangling the snarl, then I, at least, should do and try everything in my power before giving up." A year after painting "The Maze", Kurelek attempted suicide. Freedom at last from the prison of "The Maze" would come with Kurelek's later conversion to Roman Catholicism; this evolution is depicted in the film "William Kurelek's The Maze". In 1971, he painted "Out of the Maze" which he presented as a gift to Maudsley Hospital. The work depicts Kurelek with his wife and four children saying grace at a picnic near a pond on the prairie.