There are no Pedestrian Sundays Kensington Market this Pandemic Year,
Yet there is still one of my Painted Street Labyrinths from last year.
And for a second time in one week,
A Classic Car has parked upon it . . .
Ford Thunderbird.
There are no Pedestrian Sundays Kensington Market this Pandemic Year,
Yet there is still one of my Painted Street Labyrinths from last year.
And for a second time in one week,
A Classic Car has parked upon it . . .
Ford Thunderbird.
1973 Dodge Charger SE atop my still visible year-old Street Labyrinth painted on Kensington Avenue during a previous Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market . . .
The cyclist has stopped atop one of the Labyrinths I painted on Augusta Avenue during a previous Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market . . .
The cyclist has stopped atop one of the Labyrinths I painted during a previous Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market . . .https://t.co/cn2MqQqxZQ
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— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) May 15, 2020
Labyrinth I painted on Augusta Avenue in Kensington Market, Downtown Toronto.
I imagine this photograph was captured before Physical Distancing went into effect due to the Pandemic Lockdown.
If you walk it, do so one person at a time, that’s the only way to guarantee enough space between people . . .
Still visible.
The pass-through Street Labyrinth I painted on Kensington Avenue last summer in Kensington Market . . .
Road repair has brought new asphalt to the surface of Kensington Avenue in Downtown Toronto.
Resulting in disappearance of one half of the Street Labyrinth I painted there during a previous Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market.
Yet, because of the particular design of this pass-through Labyrinth, half is all you need.
One can still enter, walk, exit, having completed their Labyrinth Experience . . .
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 . . .
Squint closely and you might spot me sporting my blue Labyrinth shirt while painting the farthest most Labyrinth in this image . . .
Looking north on Augusta Avenue showing two of the four Labyrinths I painted here . . .
The top of my Labyrinth in the bottom of this photograph . . .
Augusta Avenue, Kensington Market, Toronto.
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 . . .
Before I began re-painting my months old Labyrinths on Augusta Avenue which were showing wear and tear, I saw children exploring and enjoying them as they were . . .
Seeing this, I felt something wonderful.
Their imagination perhaps filling in the breaks and gaps in the walls and arcs of my painted designs.
That as much as anything else is why I keep painting Labyrinths in Public Spaces where children discover them.