Had to do a double-take looking at this Labyrinth image . . .
I Know this is my Robson Square Painted Labyrinth, yet the point of view is a new one for me.
Vantage point is Howe Street, looking south west, into Robson Square proper.
A most unusual perspective!
Late afternoon Winter Sun casting shadows on rocks and paths outlining Vancouver Public Labyrinth . . .
A nice and timely capture.
Shadows this of year weave into the experience of walking these Labyrinths.
Image brings into view all four Labyrinths painted onto Labyrinth Pier, especially the newest Blue colour Baltic Labyrinth Design.
I want to add at least two more painted Labyrinths to the Pier, however, overnight freezing temperature births morning frost on the wooden planks, bringing afternoon dampness, my painting conditions are less than ideal.
Might have to complete the remaining Green and Yellow Labyrinths sometime in the new year.
Hmmm . . .
I wouldn’t consider myself to be an “Evil” Sorcerer.
VANCOUVERITES: if you are questing along the seawall near the Isle of Granville, BE WARNED: an evil sorcerer has created a diabolical LABYRINTH upon the docks, in which I was trapped for SEVERAL HOURS. Woe be upon the spellcaster who created it if I ever find them!!! pic.twitter.com/krHxvtIRgb
— Joe (@stopjoenow) November 20, 2018
Look closely at the White Labyrinth.
There is a mix of thin outlines and wide finished lines.
I was still in the process of painting the White Labyrinth.
The white dots and shoeprints are from people walking on my wet paint . . .
The Red Heart Labyrinth I had finished painting and it was dry, so no red shoeprints.
This is the White Quadrant of my still incomplete four colour Medicine Wheel Labyrinth.
Began this project just before I left Toronto and intend to finish it upon my return.
Early enough in the day, and the right time of year for Shadows from the hanging Traffic Signal on Howe Street to slowly make their way around the Robson Square Labyrinth . . .
Hazmat suits are optional when walking the Wading Pool Labyrinth in Christie Pits Park…?
Black and White photograph capturing the colourful Lines of the Roxton Road Labyrinth I painted on the wading pool in Fred Hamilton Park, Toronto . . .
This is one of the Heart Aglets from my larger scale Chalk Labyrinth currently on the Seawall near Science World in False Creek.
Aglets are that slip of plastic at the end of shoelaces to prevent fraying of the threads.
When I first began drawing circles at the end of the arcs and turn-arounds in my Labyrinths, I needed a word for what this was and what I intended and hoped for in behaviour of Labyrinth Walkers/Runners.
Over the years I had noticed by direct observation of people walking my Labyrinths, there were these micro-hesitations, these almost imperceptible pauses whenever people reached a turn-around.
Finally realized that people were looking at the far wall at the end of each Labyrinth Lane.
They would reach the wall, and only then would they make a decision to turn.
They were focused on the destination at the end of the lane.
By drawing circles at the end of the arcs, be they parallel or concentric lines, which altogether make a Labyrinth a Labyrinth, I saw those micro-hesitations disappear.
People were focusing on the circle as they walked towards the end of each lane, reaching it they seamlessly turned and continued walking or running until they reached the centre.
This micro-hesitation behaviour did not exist when I looked at people walking traditional Chartres Labyrinth designs.
That was an important clue.
I had observed people just kept walking, without the pause.
That was because at the end of each concentric lane is a semi-circle curve, a Labrys, which would guide you to the next inner or outer parallel concentric lane.
In essence, by drawing circles at the end of arcs, I had pulled in the Labrys from the far wall to the centre of a turn-around point.
That began in Toronto.
One day, I don’t recall when, but it was here in Vancouver, instead of drawing a circle aglet, I drew a heart aglet.
It changed everything.
The entire feeling of walking the Labyrinth changed.
With every turn, one’s own idea of whatever the Heart Symbol means to them, is being compounded with every turn until they reach the centre, where they usually find a Larger Heart, which I almost always now include in my Labyrinths.
I found this positive compounded feeling was lessened by using multi-coloured heart aglets, so I almost always keep them red.
Yet whenever I remember to do so, I mix it up and draw one or maybe two Heart Aglets in a different colour.
Thus, this Blue Heart Aglet…
“🐀🌀” …Mouse in a Maze?
Rounding the round Aglet of the Wading Pool Labyrinth I painted in Christie Pits Park, Toronto . . .
Late afternoon shadows fall upon my Roxton Road Labyrinth in Fred Hamilton Playground, Toronto . . .
