Art Gallery of Ontario.
Grange Park Labyrinth . . .
Arrow.
Heart.
Pigeon.
Summertime.
Middle of August 2022,
Wading in the Wading Pool Labyrinth
In Christie Pits Park, Toronto . . .
Children chalked a Heart!
AND chalked The Sun too!
Seeing some lovely child led additions to your labyrinth at St. Andrew’s Playground @LabyrinthsDOTca! pic.twitter.com/K93W38wAUU
— Norm Di Pasquale (@normsworld) August 11, 2022
” Labyrinth of ❤️ ”
At the intersection of Augusta Avenue at Wales Avenue in Kensington Market, Downtown Toronto . . .
“A pleasure to see HïMY SYeD at work on his Labyrinth today at St. Andrew’s Playground.
HïMY has added some much needed ❤️ to the park;
Saw many children enjoying his Labyrinth.
“Urban Acupuncture” as he calls it!”
A pleasure to see @LabyrinthsDOTca at work on his labyrinth today at St. Andrew’s Playground. Himy has added some much needed ❤️ to the park; saw many children enjoying his labyrinth. “Urban acupuncture” as he calls it! #topoli #toronto pic.twitter.com/fcLivhACWT
— Norm Di Pasquale (@normsworld) July 31, 2022
I had previously outlined a Temporary-Permanent Labyrinth in Red paint and this is still pretty much what it looked like when I arrived Today, the last Sunday Afternoon in July, to properly repaint over the outline using yellow.
The above two photographs, also taken by Norm, were captured on Sunday May 8 2022.
My earlier Labyrinth outline painted in red was okay, it did the job.
By re-painting the Labyrinth using Yellow, and this time properly painting it, not just as an outline, it’s a much better fit with the yellow colours found around the different parts of the playground.
It’s now looks like it was always supposed to be there.
And for first time visitors to St. Andrew’s Playground,
It’s likely they’d feel this Labyrinth was always a part of the Park.
That’s how Norm felt.
He said the park was incomplete until my Labyrinth was added to it.
All the while I was repainting the Labyrinth in Yellow,
Children were hovering around asking their parents if they could walk, which really means running, around the freshly painted and rapidly drying Yellow Labyrinth.
After I answered the first few parents who asked that, “Yes, it’s dry,”, kids quickly began walking and running around and playing in their new Labyrinth.
I was so caught up in conversation with Norm, I forgot to snap photographs of any of the kids playing in it.
But they and their parents were having fun, and that’s what’s in my mind’s eye and memory on this Labyrinth Making afternoon.
Norm confirmed he’s seen people walking the Labyrinth all the time, and that was when it was only outlined in red.
Arrow beside the Heart at The Start points to where you begin your journey into the freshly (Re)Painted St. Andrew’s Playground Labyrinth.
The “Heart” ❤️ of the Labyrinth inside St. Andrew’s Playground in Downtown Toronto.
Saturday Afternoon spent chalking three Labyrinths in and around the Central Playground of Brampton’s Chinguacousy Park.
I was so focused on making the Labyrinths,
I only took a few photographs.
And altogether forgot to take any photographs of my third Labyrinth, a pass-through baltic design closer to the spray pad area.
It was that time of day,
Before the photographer’s Golden Hour when natural lighting is at its best for image captures,
When long shadows make it challenging to properly photograph the Labyrinths I draw in chalk on the ground.
So I only took two more less than satisfactory photographs to simply remember and remind myself of the day.
People walking the Labyrinths came in waves, when one would walk, many then followed.
Perhaps as many teens and grown-ups walked them as the total number of children who kept returning to re-walk them.
I lost track of time and was mostly in the moment.
Making Labyrinths has become my Mindfulness practice as much as walking Labyrinths.
Around the largest of the afternoon’s three Labyrinths,
I chalked the word for Labyrinths in a number of Brampton’s most spoken Languages.
Somehow the late afternoon rays of sunlight peeking through the trees and landing upon my multi-colour chalk Labyrinth,
Looks very much like the colours of sunlight passing through the stained glass windows of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, as it illuminated the Labyrinth inside the Church.
Image I took of the Labyrinth inside Grace Cathedral in SF back in 2013.
Running Group, “HIIT + RUN TO” at Grange Park Labyrinth
When the sky above Grange Park is gray instead of blue,
The Blue of the Art Gallery of Ontario becomes the centre of attention rather than the centre of the Labyrinth…
Heatwave in Toronto happening now.
Why not cool down by walking the Wading Pool Labyrinth in Budapest Park along the Sunnyside Boardwalk ?
Find the water then start at the Heart !
My New Grange Park Labyrinth is now 11 days old.
Grateful to see it’s still there for all who wish to walk . . .
Carlo Osuna at the Grange Park Labyrinth Looking South.
This Wading Pool inside Ed McCleverty Equal Access Playground,
On east side of Ted Reeve Arena,
is where you will find & can walk my
“East Toronto Labyrinth”.
Colours have faded somewhat
Yet,
It remains very walkable!
With or without water!
Ted Reeve arena splash pad at midday in July. It's 27 degrees, but the wading pool is empty and unstaffed. Bright lights, big city! pic.twitter.com/htBk0hFOBK
— a natural, zesty enterprise (@Robsonian) July 16, 2022
“…A New Labyrinth,
Mere days after The City powerwashed the previous one off.
Apparently they’re graffiti?
Removing Labyrinths is a dumb thing to spend taxpayer money on.
But thank you @LabyrinthsDOTca
For replacing it so quickly!!”
