Labyrinth (print studio)

Ali NormanAmerican printmaker, adjunct professor at the University of Tampa, chaos magic and Vajrayana Buddhism practitioner

• Norman attributes the fire materially to a neighboring coffee shop's illegally installed roaster and symbolically to her own burnout.

  “the coffee shop next door illegally installed a coffee roaster and burnt the building down”

  Seekers of the Eternal: Ep 65 - Ali Norman - "I Was a Backyard Wrestler!" (May 30, 2025) · Listen from 25:58

• Norman describes reaching severe burnout before the fire, including autoimmune problems and weighing 80 pounds.

  “I got to such a place of burnout and I was like having autoimmune stuff and I was 80 pounds and I was totally in some kind of manic creative state”

  Seekers of the Eternal: Ep 65 - Ali Norman - "I Was a Backyard Wrestler!" (May 30, 2025) · Listen from 24:49

• Norman says she wanted to create a community print studio because she sees herself as a torchbearer for printing technology that could otherwise die out.

  “I really feel like I'm like a torchbearer of this technology that I really want to teach people and make sure it doesn't die”

  Seekers of the Eternal: Ep 65 - Ali Norman - "I Was a Backyard Wrestler!" (May 30, 2025) · Listen from 24:19

• Norman says she signed the lease and received the keys to her studio on March 1, 2020, one week before pandemic lockdowns.

  “I had signed my lease and I got the keys on march 1st of 2020”

  Seekers of the Eternal: Ep 65 - Ali Norman - "I Was a Backyard Wrestler!" (May 30, 2025) · Listen from 23:24