TDot Batu Samba Reggae closed out the July 30 2023 Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market with a Drumming Parade up beginning at the bottom of Kensington Avenue winding through Kensington Market and north up Augusta Avenue.
Along the way,
TDot Batu paused atop my Re-Painted Labyrinths near the Kensington Garden Car until finally arriving on North Augusta Avenue at my then still-in-progress painting of a Pass-Through Labyrinth.
I too then paused to enjoy their Drumming…
Yeeeeaaahhhh….
This was kinda weird.
I really did not want to have my picture taken like this, yet I didn’t feel I had any choice.
You might be able to tell that by the look on my face.
Reflecting on it,
This was the perhaps the first time I had a Vancouver experience here in my hometown of Toronto.
In Vancouver I kept silently wondering to myself “What Planet Am I On?” as I had one positive experience after another after another with Vancouver Police Officers.
Vancouver Bicycle Cops would stop and thank me for making Chalk Labyrinths all around VanCity, one even wanted to simply shake my hand, that was at the TaiwanFest on Granville.
Other times, Vancouver Police would LOAN ME TRAFFIC PYLONS and even move them into place and direct traffic around my Labyrinths while in progress and then once completed.
Again, that permanent question “What Planet Am I On?” persisted in me as every time that happened, I had to, almost as a necessary “Must”, contrast my Labyrinth Making encounters between Toronto’s Cops and Vancouver’s.
On this Pedestrian Sunday,
I again asked myself, “What Planet Am I On?” but this time, it was IN Toronto, NOT Vancouver.
My freshly Re-Painted Heart Labyrinth on Kensington Avenue returns and becomes part of the streetscape on this Pedestrian Sunday.
Me Re-Painting the Square Labyrinth, with the Heart in Middle, I first painted onto Augusta Avenue during the May 2023 Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market.
Muslimah walking my Re-Painted Square Labyrinth with her Little One on Augusta Avenue during Pedestrian Sunday.
Standing beside the Heart Labyrinth holding a Purple Ballon twisted into what I believe is a Sword.
Mazes have Monsters.
Heart Labyrinths have Love.
Thankfully the Sword is not needed.
…Still looks like fun to have one!
Me smiling with a Little One while Re-Painting & Expanding my Heart Labyrinth on Augusta Avenue during Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market…
Norm Di Pasquale paused by my repainting of the Heart Labyrinth in front of Courage My Love on Kensington Avenue in Kensington Market to say Hi and catch up on things.
Things like, “Ontario Place For All!“, …Austria Place for Some.
That’s me in the background sporting my Red Octagon Labyrinth TEE refreshing the right side of the Heart Labyrinth.
❤️ Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington Market! #topoli pic.twitter.com/YvV3gj4x86
— Norm Di Pasquale (@normsworld) July 30, 2023
Just as my earlier Grange Park “❤️” Heart Labyrinth, painted in red, in the middle of Grange Park could be seen from the top floor of The Art Gallery of Ontario,
My Grange Park Labyrinth, with its new design and now painted in Cyan, can also be seen and recognized.
Cool.
“Every month in the Spring,
Summer,
Someone paints a Labyrinth in Grange Park.
Everybody loves it.
Every month,
The City of Toronto wastes resources to wipe it out.
Shame.”
Every month in the spring summer, someone paints a maze in the Grange park. Everybody loves it. Every month, the city (@cityoftoronto) wastes resources to wipe it out. Shame.
— Massih Moayedi — مسیح مویدی (@massihmoayedi) July 17, 2023
The colours of my Labyrinth in David Crombie Park in Old Town Toronto are fading.
I’ll prioritize repainting it,
Perhaps in darker colours.
On Father’s Day,
Sunday June 18 2023…
I RE-Painted the Grange Park Labyrinth.
Again.
Here are a couple of captures from the evening of which were just tweeted…
#Canada #TorontoPark
📍Grange Park pic.twitter.com/S1pjx6sWil— Kiss Henlen (@RosaarioLope) June 30, 2023
Red & Black,
South & West Arcs of the Circle of Benches I painted and transformed into a Medicine Wheel,
in David Crombie Park, Old Town Toronto.