Perspective.
What Grown-Ups sometimes, oftentimes, miss seeing…
A Child’s Height View from the Heart in the Centre of The Grange Park Labyrinth . . .
Perspective.
What Grown-Ups sometimes, oftentimes, miss seeing…
A Child’s Height View from the Heart in the Centre of The Grange Park Labyrinth . . .
Families taking happy photos in the Grange labyrinth that the underfunded city of toronto parks dept regularly spends $ on removing. pic.twitter.com/eNGxA7AFvG
— Maltese Petard ( Official Parody) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (@shawnmicallef) March 16, 2023
Walked by here today—had to adjust my path to allow a dad and his two kids to finish their enthusiastic walk of the labyrinth. The local councillor needs to intervene. https://t.co/agQvVbBEZn
— Brian B (@brianyyz) March 17, 2023
… to the building and summarily cancelled the event. (the fire pit had been used many times before; there was zero danger to the brick building). I happened to be there when the weeping kids — dozens — came tumbling out of the community building there.
Sad sad sad sad sad.
— Henrik Bechmann (Toronto) 🇨🇦 (@HenrikBechmann) March 17, 2023
@LabyrinthsDOTca is a treasure that does the most amazing urban acupuncture.
Municipal parks workers, following King John's lead, seem to have the goal of making parks as unattractive and underserviced as possible to the residents that use them. Damn the costs seemingly.
— Sean K (@seankillackey) March 17, 2023
— Jessica Dee Humphreys (@jessicadeehum) March 17, 2023
Canary Yellow colour of the Grange Park Labyrinth looking good through the snow.
As is Hanzo (半藏),
The good boy who’s sitting in the centre . . .
Erased last week, back today. It’s kind of amazing how how time and money the city is willing to spend trying to kill the guerrilla labyrinth in Grange Park. I mean, it’s not as though the parks budget is flush pic.twitter.com/AXEy4OVbqB
— Oliver Moore (@moore_oliver) February 21, 2023
Pennywise…🙄
— Port Credit Voter (@PtCreditVoter) February 21, 2023
Well when you drive in from Alliston, the last thing you want to see is an email from a staffer saying, "Sorry, GM of Keeping Grass Green & Rec Centre Waiting Lists, but somebody is colouring outside of our lines again."#TOpoli
— Ogthedim (@OgtheDim) February 21, 2023
Once a #park, #playground or walkway gets characterized as a #municipal "asset" to be "managed", the practice of administrators often becomes reduced to holding the line and maintaining the course, at which point creativity gets flushed.
Creativity can be prioritized. Or not.
— Myron Belej (@ReadLyte) February 22, 2023
did anyone keep a
Please Walk on the Grass
sign— Ed Drass 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🇵🇷 (@eddrass) February 22, 2023
Yes we do!
— Norm Di Pasquale (@normsworld) February 22, 2023
This is the same thing the city dealt with when ford started up his anti graffiti thing and started sandblasting actual works of art…paid for by BIAs…so dumb…use your brain, figure out what makes a city good and what makes it bad…
— George Bell (@georgebell) February 22, 2023
@McKelvieTO what is happening?!
— George Bell (@georgebell) February 22, 2023
It’s fine, it’s whimsical, it’s educational, it’s everything you’d want in a park!
— Norm Di Pasquale (@normsworld) February 22, 2023
🤔 Go figure.🙂
— She. M. (@MusingsbyShe) February 22, 2023
When did they originally remove the maze? That was there when I lived nearby 12 years ago
— Erinn (@reallyErinnn) February 22, 2023
Guerrilla in the sense of unsanctioned. Staff keep having it removed and the public keeps re-painting it
— Oliver Moore (@moore_oliver) February 22, 2023
Cripes that’s stupid. The public obvious like it.
— Ann. Who? (@annwmac) February 22, 2023
I had no idea it was unofficial!
— Brian Huntley 🇨🇦💙💛 (@BrianPHuntley) February 22, 2023
I'd like to hope that the city's irrational quest to spare no expense to ensure that no unauthorised fun is had will end along with our former mayor.
I suspect it won't. https://t.co/QbeDswxBf3
— Not Vex as in 🏳️🌈, but Vex as in 🏳️🌈 (@The_Terroirist) February 22, 2023
This city needs a psychoanalyst. https://t.co/ak837dQIEw
— jennifer evans 🇵🇸 (@nejsnave) February 22, 2023
Why erase it, this is wonderful! Great activity for your mind and I’m sure kids love it! Councillor @ausmalik, how about we have it painted permanently instead of using up resources to keep removing?
— kay (@cyclekay) February 22, 2023
“I have seen some of the little ones playing on that. Yeah, I thought it was pretty cool.”
“Everybody really, really enjoys that Labyrinth and every time it’s produced, a few days pass and The City comes and removes it.”
— Ray White, Grange Park Regular
I just saw this on the news. Wth is wrong with the people at City Hall. There is horrendous graffiti all over the City that never gets cleaned, but they spent $14,000 in 2022 removing labyrinths. Geez!
— Chase Stevens (@ChaseStevens2) February 18, 2023
I just saw this on the news. Wth is wrong with the people at City Hall. There is horrendous graffiti all over the City that never gets cleaned, but they spent $14,000 in 2022 removing labyrinths. Geez!
— Chase Stevens (@ChaseStevens2) February 18, 2023
Early Morning Labyrinth Walkers at the recently repainted Grange Park Labyrinth . . .
Before it was depainted.
Capture-wise,
The canary yellow outline of the Labyrinth Design works well in contrast to the Giant Wall of Sky Blue colouring the south wall Grange Park facing side of the Art Gallery of Ontario.
From now on,
Maybe I will no longer repaint the Grange Park Labyrinth using shades and tints of Blue.
Yellow may be the way to go.
While [re]painting the Grange Park Labyrinth to remedy its absence from Grange Park over the winter,
I recognized Photojunkie Rannie Turingan as he began his & Cody’s spiralling walk towards the Heart in the Centre.
We hadn’t seen one another in person since before the Pandemic, since before I was living in Vancouver.
Rannie & Cody were officially the first Labyrinth Walkers of the renewed Grange Park Labyrinth.
@LabyrinthsDOTca Hi Himy! Hope you're well. Do you want to talk about this on radio with me this AM? https://t.co/doxx8A5Ak2
— Mark Towhey (@towhey) December 12, 2022
Hah you can literally see the Grange Park artists name on Google Maps. Too funny
— Alan Drummond (@alandrummond1) December 12, 2022
I know who the artist is. I'm sure the city does too… if not, they should! He's not shy about it.
— Mark Towhey (@towhey) December 12, 2022
Mayor Tory, @JohnTory the labyrinth in Grange park has been there since I was a child; it's an enjoyable piece of meditative art – heartbroken to hear City resources are being used to constantly remove something so appreciated by the residents! #SaveGrangeParkLabyrinth https://t.co/5cjpOsNrGM
— Michelle Roy 🇨🇦 (@Ms_Michelle_Roy) December 10, 2022
N.B.
EVERY Time I tweet or ReTweet a photo of the Grange Park Labyrinth
It is powerwashed within 24 to 72 hours [ if it was a weekend (re)tweet ].
When I DON'T tweet any photos of my Grange Park Labyrinth, after repaintings,
They are NOT removed.
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) December 8, 2022
"Labyrinth Buddy" hahaha
First time anyone's called me that!
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) December 5, 2022
Grange Park Labyrinth is located such that it’s along the way of many a person’s day . . .
Aerial view of Grange Park Labyrinth.
Painted one inch wide white lines of the Grange Park Labyrinth remain recognizable when viewed from the Spiral Staircase of the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Last time they were blue.