Chinese Elders chatting beside my blue and white colour Labyrinth I painted in the centre of Grange Park in Downtown Toronto . . .
It’s almost 24 hours since NuitBlanche 2011 began. It’s also almost 12 hours since it ended early this morning.
My body is still aching from hopscotching various art zones carrying my giant NuWe letters performing my own Independent mobile NuitBlanche Giant Outstallation Art, NuWeBlanche (@NuWeBlanche).
I did take a break somewhere in there and made a point of visiting the Toronto Public Labyrinth to experience Shannon’s Fireflies. This NuitBlanche installation by Seth Hardy (@thirdson), founder and executive director of Site 3 coLaboratory, was intentionally placed in the centre of the labyrinth…
The Toronto Public Labyrinth in Trinity Square Park will feature
by Seth Hardy, founder and executive director of Site 3 coLaboratory
during Nuit Blanche 2011
Toronto’s all night extravaganza of contemporary art
Saturday, October 1, 2011
6:59 pm – 7am
All Welcome
Free of Charge
This installation piece will use a grid of suspended light nodes in a cube frame containing sensors, and will respond to the whispers of participants by converting their words into light, sound and movement.
By using whisper stations set up in the labyrinth, two people can talk to each other and subsequently see their words create light and be distorted as they pass through the air.
Please join the Labyrinth Community Network
for a group walk on the first day of Autumn
Friday, September 23
12:00 noon
Toronto Public Labyrinth
Trinity Square Park
(immediately west of the Eaton Centre and south of the Church of the Holy Trinity)
Medieval music will accompany us
Fully accessible
Braille Labyrinth on site
Free of charge
All are welcome!
Upcoming:
Winter Solstice, Thursday, December 22 at noon
Sometimes people skateboard through my Labyrinths rather than walk . . .
Muslims in Toronto have been marking the end of the Holy Month of Ramadan with Eid al Fitr.
I attended GTA Eid at Metro Toronto Convention Centre hosted by Muslim Association of Canada.
After prayers, Muslim children, namely brothers Omar and Ammar and their big sister, helped create a Labyrinth using masking tape.
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) September 19, 2020
Labyrinth or maze? Whatever the case, people actually do try it: #KM5T http://twitpic.com/5euwzm #showyourballs
— Kensington Market (@kensington_m5t) June 21, 2011
All right. On to the next #Labyrinth. Sunnyside and bottom of the Humber river. Let's see how 'Baraka' is in this paint can… Running low.
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) June 19, 2011
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) September 19, 2020
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) September 19, 2020
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) September 19, 2020
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) September 19, 2020
“Walking the spiral path of twists and turns is an ancient spiritual exercise.
“Often the words labyrinth and maze are used interchangeably, but they are not the same. A maze is a network of paths and dead-ends, and one has to puzzle her way out. In contrast, a labyrinth has only one way in and only one way out. The walker simply follows the path.
“Twenty years ago in San Francisco at Grace Cathedral, I walked a labyrinth on its marble floor, a replica of the famous design found at Chartres Cathedral in France. It was an exercise that gave me profound calm and unexpected answers, all from just putting one foot in front of the other.
“I discovered there is a scientific reason for why this happens. The left side of the brain, which governs rational, logical and linear actions, is often overworked. Walking a labyrinth allows that side to rest, while the right side of the brain, which is associated with non-verbal, non-rational and the intuitive, is exercised, according to “The Healing Labyrinth,” an article in Barron’s by Helen Rafael Sands in 2001. After walking a labyrinth, the two hemispheres of the brain become balanced.”
