I recently re-painted my Labyrinth in the Wading Pool in Bellevue Square Park in Kensington Market.
You can also see some of the Design Motifs I also repainted.
The wading pool surface however has become decrepit and no amount of repainting can solve that.
At some point, the park itself will be remade, revitalized.
Unknown if the wading pool will survive at all.
Until then, you can still walk my Labyrinth . . .
Maybe the Toronto Minotaur did this ?
Please call us as we may require more info. ^ga
— 311 Toronto (@311Toronto) September 4, 2016
The Labyrinth I recently Re-painted in East Vancouver.
The Labyrinth Maker’s house is in the background. He painted it white.
I did not know anything about the Labyrinth nor its Maker until he walked out of his house and said hello while I was repainting.
His name is Jerry. A grandfather, who for several years now, with help from a grandkid of his has annually repainted this Labyrinth with white paint.
He hadn’t yet gotten around to doing that this year.
He was happy that I had taken it upon myself to Re-paint the fading white design lines.
Strathcona Linear Park is a 1970s consequence of the City of Vancouver tearing down three houses in a north-south direction on Hawkes Avenue, in anticipation of the never-completed Project 200 Freeway.
Eventually, Jerry got tired of seeing this patch of paved grey in Linear Greenspace beside his house, and he painted his Labyrinth.
His chosen design comes from the Canvas Labyrinth belonging to Christchurch Cathedral in Downtown Vancouver.
Jerry, seem uncomfortable whenever I said it was his Labyrinth. He said it belonged to everyone.
Including me, the Labyrinth Maker from Toronto who took it upon himself to repaint it . . .
Wait-a-minute…
That‘s not a Minotaur!
And those would be my paint cans as I stepped back and took a break while this image was taken . . .
You can easily see the outlines of the black quadrant.
With difficulty you maybe can see the red lines of the red quadrant.
This is, or will be, my Medicine Wheel Labyrinth in the wading pool in Wells Hill Park, midtown Toronto . . .
Hope to finish painting it when I get back from Vancouver.
Multi-colour Heart Labyrinth I painted on Augusta Avenue in Kensington Market Toronto during an earlier Pedestrian Sunday . . .
“Nature is a Labyrinth in which the very haste you move with will make you lose your way.”
— Sir Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626) – English Lawyer, Author, Courtier, & Philosopher.
Sunday Afternoon Labyrinth Walk.
Modified Classic Labyrinth design chalked in the middle of Grandview Park, in the Commercial Drive neighbourhood of East Vancouver.
“Copyrighted Labyrinths get me down.
“To me it’s an open source archetype that passes from generation to generation building off the creativity, work, and tradition of anonymous craftsmen and women.
“If you like my designs feel free to share, use or adapt them….”
— Thea Verkerk, via Discover Labyrinths (Lars Howlett)
“Copyrighted” Labyrinths are Today’s Minotaurs.
Trees in Devonian Park throwing shade upon The Labyrinth…
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— HïMY SYeD (@LabyrinthsDOTca) August 20, 2016
Chalked a Classic Labyrinth with random sized lane widths in Devonian Park, Vancouver.
The spot is a crossroads of sorts, with cyclists, roller-bladers, walkers and joggers all passing through it.
But I didn’t realize that before I began chalking.
It’s a very people-busy thoroughfare, opposite of ideal for meditative, nor playful, Labyrinth walking.
Labyrinth running…?
Maybe if one is quick, so people passing through won’t bump into you.
Still, two brothers riding their bikes, decided to stop cycling, drop their wheels, then decided to rush in, out, then through the Labyrinth a number of times, all as I was about to leave for the evening.
This is really cool!
A timelapse of two children, one, Miguel, stays in the centre while the other walks out from the centre of my Chalk Labyrinth in MacLean Park.
I had re-chalked this particular East Vancouver Labyrinth just the day before, on Wednesday morning.
Video captured curated by Jonathan Cruz.
Quite Surprised how well this One-Week-Old Chalk #Labyrinth in McLean Park remains walkable.
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— HïMY SYeD (@LabyrinthsDOTca) August 17, 2016
It’s Care-Free Weekend in North Vancouver!
Just found out about it at the last minute and found my way there…
Very much a Pedestrian Sundays Vibe with a GIANT Waterslide running downhill.
Found an empty intersection and chalked a late-in-the-day Labyrinth.