Chalked a different, yet this time around it was a precisely measured nine lane “Peace Labyrinth” in the same intersection as last year’s Toronto Ukrainian Festival.
Checkout the peace labyrinth at Bloor and Armadale pic.twitter.com/70p6rS3AnS
— Toronto Ukrainian Festival (@TorUkrFestival) September 16, 2023
“This was such a lovely addition!
It was delightful to see kids winding around it and discovering the magic and benefit of Labyrinths.”
“I came across that just a while ago, literally.”
The peace labyrinth created by Toronto artist Himy Syed @LabyrinthsDOTca pic.twitter.com/j4Puio7omC
— Toronto Ukrainian Festival (@TorUkrFestival) September 17, 2022
Can’t say enough good things about @LabyrinthsDOTca’s work. These are key activations that make it fun to walk our streets!
— Norm Di Pasquale – Ward 11 City Council Candidate (@normsworld) September 18, 2022
" Peace Labyrinth " 🍥
" Лабіринт Мир "
Toronto Ukrainian Festival 2022
Armadale Avenue & Bloor Street West Intersection
Bloor West Village
| #Labyrinths🍥 #TorontoUkrainianFestival🇺🇦 #BloorWestVillage https://t.co/hyQt9ahUKE pic.twitter.com/ZOeNGEqWWj
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) September 18, 2022
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!
That’s me (re)painting the Heart Labyrinth in the middle of the Baldwin & Augusta “T” Intersection during Pedestrian Sunday Kensington Market . . .
“They say life is a race, but actually it’s a maze.
There’s one entrance and one exit and arbitrary milestones in between.
Some take longer, winding roads and some have straight clear paths.
It’s important to understand that life is incredibly complex like the maze and each one has their own unique journey to take.
We should learn to live with empathy and not compare.”
Look closely and you can see the outer lanes of this Labyrinth are incomplete and open.
This image was captured before I finished painting the Labyrinth.
I stepped back out of view of the camera while this photograph was taken.
I almost never see such photos appear online.
Yet, this time I did, as I vaguely remember this moment . . .
That’s me painting the Heart Labyrinth in the middle of the Baldwin and Augusta Avenue Intersection in Kensington Market during the previous Pedestrian Sunday . . .
In Greek mythology, Icarus (the Latin spelling, conventionally adopted in English; Ancient Greek: Ἴκαρος, Íkaros, Etruscan: Vikare) is the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the creator of the Labyrinth.
In Downtown Toronto, Kid Icarus is a Storefront in Kensington Market full of local handmade goods.
I had intentionally chosen to paint this Labyrinth in front of the Kid Icarus Storefront due to the connection with its namesake’s Labyrinth Maker father, Daedalus.
Maracatu Mar Aberto . . .
Atop the Heart Labyrinth I painted in the middle of the Baldwin & Augusta Avenue intersection in Kensington Market, Downtown Toronto . . .
Heart Labyrinth I painted in the middle of the Baldwin and Augusta Intersection . . .
Jazz Musician Richard Underhill with one of my Kensington Market Street Labyrinths in the backdrop for this portrait . . .
I wasn’t able to finish making this intersection Street Labyrinth the way it needed to.
Hopefully, during the remaining 2019 Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington Market, I can return to repaint and renew . . .
