Winter – Wading Pool Labyrinth – Bellevue Square Park – Kensington Market – Toronto
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The surface of the wading pool is cracked and crumbling.
Yet The Labyrinth remains walkable;
And Skateboardable!
“A film about Mark Wallinger‘s Labyrinth.
Directed by Jared SchillerThis 30 minute documentary explores the ideas behind Mark Wallinger’s major artwork commission for London Underground,
From the influence of Harry Beck’s Tube map to the Guinness Book of Records’ Tube Challenge,
Alongside personal responses to the artworks by travellers and Underground staff.”
“2013 was the 150th anniversary of the London Underground.
To celebrate, artist Mark Wallinger has created ‘Labyrinth’, a series of 270 unique artworks – one for every station on the network.
The film reveals the inspiration and processes behind the project during a journey that starts in Chigwell, where Mark was brought up, and ends in St James’s Park, the site of the first installed work.
Along the way we also visit Mark in his Soho studio, and a factory in Redhill, Surrey, where the artworks are being meticulously handmade.”
“I have been walking the Labyrinths in Trinity-Bellwoods park regularly for years – since they were first put there.
But I have had to watch the neglect and degradation of them to the point where they are no longer walkable.
does anyone know how to get them refreshed?”
There are on my To Re-Paint Labyrinth List.
Street Performers often use my Painted Labyrinths as public stages for their shows…
“The Teen Queens, Emilia McCarthy and Niamh Wilson.
At age eight, Emilia McCarthy (left), now 17, doubled for Elle Fanning as Brad Pitt’s desert-wandering daughter in Babel, while Saw franchise veteran Niamh (pronounced Neeve) Wilson, also 17, has been paying income tax since she was five.”
Toronto City of Labyrinths makes a cameo in the current issue of Flare Magazine as these two actors walk Kensington Market Labyrinth in Bellevue Square Park.
Grange Park Labyrinth, an important part of Downtown Toronto’s Grange Park !
Great mid day walk through of Grange Park with members of GPAC and GCA discussing challenges and opps #TOpoli #ward20 pic.twitter.com/VFS3KHOOwn
— Anshul Kapoor (@Anshul_K) August 26, 2014
My Original colours of the Labyrinth in Grange Park were Blue and White with squares of Black.
The Blue was meant to match the Blue of the Giant Wall of the Frank Gehry addition to The Art Gallery of Ontario.
The White and Black was to match the White and Black of the Giant Floating Shoebox in the Sky of the Ontario College of Art and Design.
Both The AGO and OCAD were line of sight when standing in or around my Grange Park Labyrinth.
So the matching colour scheme seemed to reveal itself.
That was Winter and Spring.
It’s now the middle of Summer.
The Green Leaves of the growing trees have naturally veiled the line of sight between the Grange Park Labyrinth and the OCAD Shoebox.
So why not paint the Labyrinth using Orange to match the Giant Plastic Tube Slide on the Playground, which IS still visible, even from a child’s height!
Courtney walking the Labyrinth I painted on Augusta Avenue in Kensington Market on Pedestrian Sunday . . .