WOW!
This is the first aerial image of Labyrinth Pier, Vancouver I’ve seen.
The Orange and White Labyrinths I painted onto the Pier along the False Creek Seawall south east of Granville Island are easily visible.
My Red and Blue painted Labyrinths are almost invisible.
I am so very grateful for this drone photo!
Labyrinth I painted in front of Bahn Mi Pho Bar.
Restaurant has new owners.
They painted over the old name,
And kept the old Labyrinth . . .
A second Pokemon Go appears on Labyrinth Pier . . .
This one is a Larvitar who’s Augmenting Reality in the Centre of my Baltic Design Labyrinth pattern, painted in Cobalt Blue colours peaking through the early morning frost.
The earlier one was a Spinda 7.
A nice and timely capture.
Shadows this of year weave into the experience of walking these Labyrinths.
Image brings into view all four Labyrinths painted onto Labyrinth Pier, especially the newest Blue colour Baltic Labyrinth Design.
I want to add at least two more painted Labyrinths to the Pier, however, overnight freezing temperature births morning frost on the wooden planks, bringing afternoon dampness, my painting conditions are less than ideal.
Might have to complete the remaining Green and Yellow Labyrinths sometime in the new year.
🇨🇦 No seaside vacation for the first time. Ever. For all of us. (Good thing we swam thru late November last year.) Toronto’s wading pools saved us all. Tried, tested and highly recommended for Turkish cities as well. 🇹🇷 Sanırım hayatımız boyunca yaz… https://t.co/pMSFXVQUNH pic.twitter.com/NOataV5pS4
— Deniz Gözler Özenç (@simply_deniz) August 20, 2018
Water is where and when “Wading Pool” meets “Labyrinth”.
Rolling waves of water elevate what my Labyrinths painted upon Toronto’s Wading Pool surfaces can mean.
This video is also just nice to look at and listen to.
This is one of the Heart Aglets from my larger scale Chalk Labyrinth currently on the Seawall near Science World in False Creek.
Aglets are that slip of plastic at the end of shoelaces to prevent fraying of the threads.
When I first began drawing circles at the end of the arcs and turn-arounds in my Labyrinths, I needed a word for what this was and what I intended and hoped for in behaviour of Labyrinth Walkers/Runners.
Over the years I had noticed by direct observation of people walking my Labyrinths, there were these micro-hesitations, these almost imperceptible pauses whenever people reached a turn-around.
Finally realized that people were looking at the far wall at the end of each Labyrinth Lane.
They would reach the wall, and only then would they make a decision to turn.
They were focused on the destination at the end of the lane.
By drawing circles at the end of the arcs, be they parallel or concentric lines, which altogether make a Labyrinth a Labyrinth, I saw those micro-hesitations disappear.
People were focusing on the circle as they walked towards the end of each lane, reaching it they seamlessly turned and continued walking or running until they reached the centre.
This micro-hesitation behaviour did not exist when I looked at people walking traditional Chartres Labyrinth designs.
That was an important clue.
I had observed people just kept walking, without the pause.
That was because at the end of each concentric lane is a semi-circle curve, a Labrys, which would guide you to the next inner or outer parallel concentric lane.
In essence, by drawing circles at the end of arcs, I had pulled in the Labrys from the far wall to the centre of a turn-around point.
That began in Toronto.
One day, I don’t recall when, but it was here in Vancouver, instead of drawing a circle aglet, I drew a heart aglet.
It changed everything.
The entire feeling of walking the Labyrinth changed.
With every turn, one’s own idea of whatever the Heart Symbol means to them, is being compounded with every turn until they reach the centre, where they usually find a Larger Heart, which I almost always now include in my Labyrinths.
I found this positive compounded feeling was lessened by using multi-coloured heart aglets, so I almost always keep them red.
Yet whenever I remember to do so, I mix it up and draw one or maybe two Heart Aglets in a different colour.
Thus, this Blue Heart Aglet…
And those would be my paint cans as I stepped back and took a break while this image was taken . . .
TOAD.
Temporary Obsolete Abandoned Derelict.
That’s the current category of Urban Infrastructure for this Wading Pool in Ashbridges Bay Park, Woodbine Beach, East Toronto.
It’s no longer a Wading Pool, nor will it the water pump ever be working again.
So, I painted a Labyrinth here years ago, and it is still there.
Quietly, in the middle of green space, this Labyrinth of mine . . .
In Toronto, A City of Labyrinths.
My Labyrinth Designs often include Canvas Spaces at the turn-arounds.
You can see two such rectangular spaces in the “Scarboro Labyrinth” in the wading pool in Prairie Drive Park.
One with my name, and another without any artwork in it.
Perhaps Vertical Art like this Plastic Oasis piece can be placed in those squares and rectangles, leaving the Labyrinth path walkable without obstruction . . .
"Plastic oasis" at #artsinthepark at Prairie Drive Park in Scarborough. https://t.co/qdAldX4Zbr pic.twitter.com/YZtm4JBgHG
— Sean Howard (@passitalong) July 9, 2016
