Lost & Found Meditation
An immersive, accessible, multi-sensory experience which begins as a walking meditation labyrinth, then subtly transforms into a playful maze—mirroring how meditation often takes unexpected twists and turns for people with ADHD.
About the Installation
Lost & Found Meditation is a playful, thought-provoking immersive installation designed to pull back the curtain on the lived experience of ADHD. This traveling, accessible, multisensory labyrinth subtly transforms into a playful maze—symbolizing the challenges and unexpected turns meditation can take for people with ADHD.
Visited by over 800 people in a single day at its debut, the 24-by-30-foot painted canvas labyrinth captures the complexities of sensory overload and hyperfocus. Participants navigate the space in diverse ways: using mobility aids, dancing, crawling, or exploring through Braille descriptions and tactile models provided for visually impaired guests.
Enhancing the immersive experience, an original soundscape delivered through silent disco headphones deepens sensory engagement. Collaboratively created with cognitively disabled artists from Pathways to Independence, the installation highlights authentic community-based creativity.
Following its successful debut at the Saint Louis Art Museum, the piece has been invited to return for an encore installation in 2025.
Created in Community
This project was joyfully created alongside neurodiverse friends from Pathways to Independence, whose personal hyperfocuses and experiences shaped many of the interactive elements, ensuring authenticity, inclusivity, and deep relatability.
Exhibition Highlights
Saint Louis Art Museum (October 2024)
Premiered for ADHD Awareness Month in the iconic Sculpture Hall.Disability Awareness Convention, Chesterfield, MO (February 2025)
Featured interactive experience promoting accessibility and understanding.Saint Louis Public Library - Central Branch, St. Louis, MO (June 2025 - Anticipated)
Included in Martha Valenta’s “Attention Disco” immersive solo exhibition.
What Visitors Say
"It felt like someone finally captured my brain in art form. I felt understood and seen."
“I’m crying, but I’m happy.”
“Thank you for asking people to be curious and kind to us.”
Listen to the Original Score
Lost & Found Meditation 24ft x 30ft painted canvas floorcloth. Textile Paint & Canvas
