Grateful for your acknowledgement Monica,
Of my “East Toronto Labyrinth” in Ed McCleverty Equal Access Playground.
Grateful for your acknowledgement Monica,
Of my “East Toronto Labyrinth” in Ed McCleverty Equal Access Playground.
This Wading Pool inside Ed McCleverty Equal Access Playground,
On east side of Ted Reeve Arena,
is where you will find & can walk my
“East Toronto Labyrinth”.
Colours have faded somewhat
Yet,
It remains very walkable!
With or without water!
Ted Reeve arena splash pad at midday in July. It's 27 degrees, but the wading pool is empty and unstaffed. Bright lights, big city! pic.twitter.com/htBk0hFOBK
— a natural, zesty enterprise (@Robsonian) July 16, 2022
This image is the Labyrinth I painted in the Wading Pool in Kempton Howard Park in Toronto.
The Park is opposite my Grade 7 and 8 Senior Public School, Earl Grey.
When I was a student there, this park had no wading pool.
Years later, I returned after a Wading Pool had been installed in the park, and painted this Labyrinth . . .
Wading Pools in Toronto’s Public Parks are much more than simply small scale swimming pools for little ones.
They can double as Labyrinths after I paint them.
When a little older, kids on skateboards may go round and round and round my wading pool Labyrinths.
One boarder told me how my Labyrinth lines help in his situational awareness when enjoying his ride.
Wading Pools are often used by parents to teach their children how to ride a bicycle.
Ergo, A Velodrome for Tricycles and Push Bikes!
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.
Young one walking the Labyrinth I painted during October 2015 in the Wading Pool in Fairmount Park in East End Toronto . . .
“In different parts of Toronto,
A local Artist/Labyrinth Enthusiast has been given permission to paint Labyrinths onto local splash pads across the city.
What a joy!
I have a splash pad directly across the street from my house and look what they went and did last month.”
Ummm….
“…has been given permission…”
Sure, Yeah, Let’s go with that !
hahahhaha !!!
Well, technically, The local City Councillor, Mary Margaret McMahon, was literally steps away from the Wading Pool as I finished painting the Fairmount Park Wading Pool Labyrinth.
She was in the park for a small public meeting she had pre-advertised online.
I timed my final Labyrinth painting session so it would match the exact timing of the Councillor’s walk around the park.
When her meeting was done, Councillor McMahon came over, addressed me by name and asked what I was doing ?
I told her I had just finished painting the latest of my Labyrinths in my Toronto City of Labyrinths Project; placemaking Labyrinths within walking distance of every Torontonian.
I also clearly stated I just paint the Labyrinths, asking no one for permission, as there is no one to ask.
She said, “Wow”.
And we left it at that.
My most recent Labyrinth is now completed and ready for play, exploration, meditation, and fun!
This time, it’s a new multi-colour Labyrinth painted on the surface of the wading pool in Fairmount Park in Toronto’s East End.
This location fills a gap in my Project‘s aspiration to placemake one Labyrinth in each of Toronto’s 221+ self-identifying neighbourhoods.
Enjoy your NEW Labyrinth Toronto !
Children in Toronto's East End can now enjoy city's Newest Labyrinth inside Fairmount Park! | #parkTO #Labyrinths.ca pic.twitter.com/m9hevPfE2Q
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) October 15, 2015
@Dangerous_Eric Is that one of @HiMYSYeD's labyrinths?
— Derek Kraan (@derekkraan) July 21, 2012
Yes,
This is one of my Stone Labyrinths !
Constructed by carefully placing stones,
Into a five lane Labyrinth design,
Located on Woodbine Beach in Toronto’s East End.
Giant Clover Leaf Triple Spiral Triskelion Labyrinth I made from stones earlier this year located at Woodbine Beach in East Toronto is slowly losing cohesion, losing its design, stone by stone, rock by rock, and step by step . . .
The outer lanes of one of three stone spirals which make up my Triskelion Labyrinth on Woodbine Beach in East Toronto . . .