In the distance through the branches, you can see Earl Grey Senior Public School, where I spent Grades 7 and 8.
In the foreground, you can see the Labyrinth I painted in the Wading Pool in Kempton Howard Park, Toronto . . .
In the distance through the branches, you can see Earl Grey Senior Public School, where I spent Grades 7 and 8.
In the foreground, you can see the Labyrinth I painted in the Wading Pool in Kempton Howard Park, Toronto . . .
“It used to be the backyard of The Grange House (now part of the AGO).
The timeless feeling to this little park contrasts nicely with the modern blue wall of the AGO on the north side, and the upbeat architecture of the OCAD on the east.
Grange Park includes an old-fashion wading pool, a playground and a permanent Labyrinth drawn on the paved path.”
Timelapse of walking the Roxton Road Labyrinth I painted in late 2015 on the surface of the wading pool in the south end of Fred Hamilton Playground in Toronto . . .
In Toronto, parents and grandparents bring their Little Ones and their push-bikes to waterless Wading Pools to teach them how to ride a bike.
The Lines I paint in Toronto’s Wading Pools then double-purpose the Wading Pools into Labyrinths, which then triple-purposes them as Bike-Riding teaching spaces.
Though this Labyrinth I re-painted in East Vancouver is on a flat surface and not a concave wading pool, Little Ones are learning how to ride their bikes using them all the same . . .
Part of Growing Up
Includes learning what happens when pushing the Splash Pad water feature activation button in October . . .
Naptime!
On the Labyrinth I painted in Earlscourt Park’s wading pool . . .
Hmmm. . . don’t know I ever thought to do that myself.
Children teach me so much.
I wonder if my repainting of this Labyrinth changed its Soundscape . . . ?
I recently re-painted my Labyrinth in the Wading Pool in Bellevue Square Park in Kensington Market.
You can also see some of the Design Motifs I also repainted.
The wading pool surface however has become decrepit and no amount of repainting can solve that.
At some point, the park itself will be remade, revitalized.
Unknown if the wading pool will survive at all.
Until then, you can still walk my Labyrinth . . .
The Labyrinth I recently Re-painted in East Vancouver.
The Labyrinth Maker’s house is in the background. He painted it white.
I did not know anything about the Labyrinth nor its Maker until he walked out of his house and said hello while I was repainting.
His name is Jerry. A grandfather, who for several years now, with help from a grandkid of his has annually repainted this Labyrinth with white paint.
He hadn’t yet gotten around to doing that this year.
He was happy that I had taken it upon myself to Re-paint the fading white design lines.
Strathcona Linear Park is a 1970s consequence of the City of Vancouver tearing down three houses in a north-south direction on Hawkes Avenue, in anticipation of the never-completed Project 200 Freeway.
Eventually, Jerry got tired of seeing this patch of paved grey in Linear Greenspace beside his house, and he painted his Labyrinth.
His chosen design comes from the Canvas Labyrinth belonging to Christchurch Cathedral in Downtown Vancouver.
Jerry, seem uncomfortable whenever I said it was his Labyrinth. He said it belonged to everyone.
Including me, the Labyrinth Maker from Toronto who took it upon himself to repaint it . . .
You can easily see the outlines of the black quadrant.
With difficulty you maybe can see the red lines of the red quadrant.
This is, or will be, my Medicine Wheel Labyrinth in the wading pool in Wells Hill Park, midtown Toronto . . .
Hope to finish painting it when I get back from Vancouver.
Multi-colour Heart Labyrinth I painted on Augusta Avenue in Kensington Market Toronto during an earlier Pedestrian Sunday . . .
Labyrinth Walkers sometimes ask questions, and by the time they reach the Centre of the Labyrinth, they may have an answer . . .