Evenings around Sunset time,
You might spot Ollie walking around the [re]painted Grange Park Labyrinth . . .
Evenings around Sunset time,
You might spot Ollie walking around the [re]painted Grange Park Labyrinth . . .
The Wading Pool inside Budapest Park,
Immediately north of the Sunnyside Boardwalk,
Opposite the east side of Sunnyside Pool,
Is normally filled with water every day throughout the summer.
Yet this past Sunday and again today, Civic Holiday Monday, it remained dry,
Offering the chance to easily walk my Octagon Labyrinth water-free.
For the rest of the summer during daytime hours,
You can still experience walking the Labyrinth in ankle deep water which is fun too.
Reaching the centre of The Grange Park Labyrinth makes for a smilingly-filled summmertime childhood memory.
The Labyrinth I painted in St. Andrew’s Playground is well lit,
Making it ideal for evening and after dark Labyrinth Walks . . .
First video found online of my “New” Labyrinth in Grange Park, Downtown Toronto.
Now that Toronto has lost its Grange Park “❤️” Heart Labyrinth, it is time for a new Grange Park Labyrinth…
I wanted to get to (re)painting this earlier, but I waited until Eid Al-Adha, which was yesterday, Saturday, was observed so I wouldn’t be distracted with Religious matters on my mind while I would be Labyrinth Making.
Eid Al-Adha is properly observed for four days, taking us to Tuesday July 12 2022 until sunset, but Saturday was the Eid Prayer day, and today my mind is now freely focused towards making this.
This time,
Rather than free-hand outlining a new Labyrinth Design in chalk, I invested a good number of hours this afternoon carefully measuring, calculating, re-calculating, twice in chalk, before painting it.
I chalked the design one and a half times.
The first time I used yellow chalk and measured widths of 24 inches for each Labyrinth Lane, but the centre was somehow not centred despite my careful calculations.
I stopped and began using my metal tape measure to confirm the actual lengths of the footpath, and for the the first time realized the paver bricks do not line up into what I assumed was a true square canvas space.
Reminded me of how many round Wading Pools in Toronto I assumed were round when they were in reality a kind of slight oval shape.
I was relieved at this discovery.
A minor mystery solved.
Now that I had my Centre of the Labyrinth indeed in the correct Centre location, I had to decide whether to keep the Seven Lane Labyrinth design or start all over using a different chalk colour so as not to confuse myself, for a different Nine Lane Labyrinth design.
Started over using blue chalk for Nine Lanes.
I also carefully measured each Labyrinth Lane width at 18 inches.
And that somehow was exactly enough space, with a Labyrinth centre measured to 36 inches in diameter, to fit comfortably.
It felt as if this was finally the Labyrinth Design that belongs here.
While that feeling was from my heart, my head agreed now that the true centre of the Labyrinth was finally confirmed.
Sunlight through the leaves made it difficult to properly photograph the light and dark tones while I was chalking out the design.
So I didn’t even bother to take more photographs.
I focused on completing the chalk outline.
With afternoon now approaching evening, decision fatigue had kicked in, and I began making mistakes.
I switched to green chalk then red coloured chalk to correct my mistakes made using the blue chalk.
Having done that, I walked the outline perhaps a dozen times, in and out, to make sure I still felt happy with this hopefully Permanent Grange Park Labyrinth design, InshAllah.
Yep, it was almost as good as I could hope, so time to paint !
Chalk twice, paint once.
That’s inaccurate as I usually add more than one coat of paint per Labyrinth Line, but for today, it’s paint once.
As people saw me stop painting the Labyrinth,
A number of them began to walk it . . .
After a short while watching people exploring, experiencing my freshly (re)painted Labyrinth,
I took a break away from Grange Park to visit a number of my other Downtown Toronto Labyrinths to see how much they had faded, and how many of them also needed repainting.
A few.
I returned a little while later right at the moment this little Muslim Girl in her hijab who had been doing laps counter-clockwise around the Grange Park Footpath all afternoon, approached and scootered past my new (re)painted Labyrinth.
The previous Labyrinth in Grange Park was a “❤️” shaped Heart Labyrinth.
The current, and hopefully permanent, Grange Park Labyrinth is Nine Lane Circular design with a “❤️” inviting you to enter it, walk the path, and arrive in the centre, where you will find another “❤️”.
I haven’t made an Eid Labyrinth since before the Pandemic began, and again yesterday on Eid Al-Adha Prayer Day, I still didn’t.
Yet, with the little Muslim Girl in her blue hijab, scootering counter-clockwise all around Grange Park while I was making today’s Labyrinth, it kept reminding me of the Pilgrims in Makkah, the Hajjis, performing Tawaaf around the Holy Kaaba.
Maybe this new Grange Park Labyrinth was technically an Eid Labyrinth after all..?
Eid Al-Adha Mubarak Everybody !
Another one of my Labyrinths painted on the surface of a Wading Pool, this time in Eglinton Park, that needs its fading arcs to be repainted.
I need to better balance my Labyrinth re-painting regimen.
The Swimming Song while jumping around my Wading Pool Labyrinth in Budapest Park !
Kinda cool to see an Aerial Drone photograph of people walking my Labyrinth at the Mouth of the Humber River !
Happy time.
Today is National Indigenous People’s Day 2022.
Video walk around of my Medicine Wheel Labyrinth painted on the surface of the wading pool inside Phin Park, in East End Toronto / Tsí Tkaròn:to.
I haven’t been able to return with enough time and energy to repaint this fading Medicine Wheel Labyrinth.
Hopefully, InshAllah, I can refresh all the colours in time for Orange Shirt Day on Friday September 30 2022.
“This is the large Labyrinth in the wading pool at Christie Pits park,
Created by Labyrinth artist, HïMY SYeD.
This wading pool was part of his vision of transforming Toronto into a City of Labyrinths.
I love this one,
Because he’s also painted smaller Labyrinths (as seen here) inside the larger Labyrinth.❤”
– Deb Svanefelt, Friends of the Labyrinth Community Network of Ontario
When I first built my Vancouver Public Labyrinth,
I intentionally named it as such with a number of aspirations in doing so.
Today, one of those aspirations has been realized.
The Public has taken ownership of hosting an event at the Vancouver Public Labyrinth on World Labyrinth Day.
That Public being The Schoolless Olympic Village.
They have on occasion made use of the Vancouver Public Labyrinth as an outdoor open-air classroom.
You can see they made the effort in creating and posting this wonderful handmade + printed invitation:
“Today is World Labyrinth Day
🍥
Come and Walk the Labyrinth”
Vancity people walking along the Seawall between Habitat Island and the Cambie Bridge would have easily seen their invitation, and perhaps a number of them walked the Vancouver Public Labyrinth on World Labyrinth Day…
Thank You Schoolless Olympic Village for tweeting and sharing your photograph today!
Grateful to see it!
Thank you!
@LabyrinthsDOTca World Labyrinth Day in False Creek pic.twitter.com/NRUho8VwWk
— Schoolless Olympic Village (@school_olympic) May 7, 2022
On World Labyrinth Day 2022,
Vancouver’s Uncool Asian Dad took his kids to the Vancouver Public Labyrinth for a Labyrinth Run !
And that’s pretty cool…
Dark Age Ahead – The Wizard of Ossington Jane's Walkhttps://t.co/QudFTCVL3p
Date : Friday May 6 2022
Time : 5:30 p.m.
Start : Meet in middle of Medicine Wheel #Labyrinth atop traffic island opposite Christie Street Subway Station entrance
| #JanesWalkTO #JanesWalk #Toronto pic.twitter.com/UOldpIOks0
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) April 6, 2022
World Labyrinth Day – Sunnyside Jane's Walk
Walk Canada's largest, most complex, Octagon Labyrinth!
+ Two more Labyrinths
Date : Saturday May 7 2022
Time : 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Start : Budapest Park, Beside the Dinosaurs
| #JanesWalkTO #loveTOwalk#WorldLabyrinthDay #Labyrinths pic.twitter.com/HKxGHTRiUG
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) April 9, 2022
World Labyrinth Day ~ Blue Zone Scarborough Jane's Walk
Learn how Labyrinths transform Neighbourhoods into Blue Zones
Date : Saturday May 7 2022
Time : 7:15 p.m – 8 p.m.
Start : Traffic Island, Teesdale Place
| #JanesWalkTO #loveTOwalk #BlueZones#WorldLabyrinthDay #ScarbTO pic.twitter.com/eY5jFM1JRI
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) April 9, 2022
The Girl on the Hat – A Children's Jane's Walkhttps://t.co/mOWBwTod4s
Date : Sunday May 8 2022
Time : 1 p.m.
Start : 69 Albany Avenue, sidewalk in front of Jane Jacobs' house
(Parents+Grandparents can come too!)
| #JanesWalkTO #JanesWalk #loveTOwalk
#storytelling #Toronto pic.twitter.com/3jyC5Yd85n— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) April 7, 2022