Thank you for this Labyrinth Report Shawn!
Appreciated!
We would like to report that
A> the god blessed fountain worked
B> the city has not power washed off Himy Syed’s (@LabyrinthsDOTca) fine wading pool labyrinth.Always love the wee exposed aggregate kid step.
Sign, in toronto fashion, warns not to touch mouth on fountain 🤷🏼♂️ pic.twitter.com/WZ1320jTQQ
— Shawn Micallef 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (@shawnmicallef) August 14, 2023
A Labyrinth is as good a place as any for a turn-around when out for a bike ride . . .
Grateful to see this photograph,
That’s me (re)painting the Grange Park Labyrinth . . .
Bicycles stop atop my slowing fading painted Orange Labyrinth on Labyrinth Pier, Vancouver . . .
In Toronto,
I paint Labyrinths on the surfaces of Wading Pools.
Wading Pools sometimes become velodromes for Tricycles and Bicycles,
as Parents or Grandparents teach their little ones how to ride a bike.
In Vancouver,
I painted Labyrinths onto a Pier overlooking Alder Bay.
Here too on Labyrinth Pier,
Little Ones learn to bike . . .
Standing atop the Orange Labyrinth on Labyrinth Pier Vancouver . . .
In the bottom left corner of this photograph,
You can spot a cyclist walking her bike atop my Robson Square Labyrinth . . .
Thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of Vancouverites & Vancouver visitors enjoyed & explored or eyed the Robson Square Labyrinth while it was there.
It’s gone now.
The temporary Public Space that was 800 Robson Street, is being transformed into 800 Robson Plaza . . .
Here is Shamez Amlani with his Bicycle atop the Heart Labyrinth I painted during Pedestrian Sunday in the Baldwin & Augusta Avenue intersection in Kensington Market.
Shamez is one of the four original Co-Founders of Streets Are For People, who championed Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington Market (and in two other Toronto Neighbourhoods as well).
He’s also my friend and has always supported the Toronto City of Labyrinths Project!
Bike tour along the Seawall makes a stop atop Labyrinth Pier Vancouver . . .
The work in the foreground is by Victor Fraser.
The Labyrinth in the background is by me.
Augusta Avenue is a one way street with northbound traffic flow from Dundas Street West to College Street in Downtown Toronto.
If one is new to the city or a visitor, and travelling by vehicle or public transit streetcar, they may look south and miss Kensington Market altogether.
I’d like to think my painting of “# K E N S I N G T O N M A R K E T” and my painted Street Labyrinths beyond them changes that . . .
Croissant ?
Yeah, I suppose my Classic three lane Labyrinth this cyclist is approaching looks like a Croissant . . .
Wading Pools double as Public Spaces where Toronto’s Little Ones can safely learn how to ride a bicycle, at their own pace, away from traffic.
Akin to kids learning taking their first steps safely in water, before entering the shallow ends of larger public swimming pools.
Wading Pools where I have painted Labyrinths, like this one in Eglinton Park in Midtown Toronto, become triply valuable…
