For some reason I can’t quite yet understand, making eight sided octagonal Labyrinths have always been a struggle.
On this evening, it turned out okay. I think it was the better of all my previous efforts.
This might have been because I returned to the basics and only tried to get the measurements and the shape of it right, without improvising anything design-wise.
Many people seemed to enjoy it.
When I first placed a medium sized dinosaur egg in the middle of the centre of what would become the Vancouver Public Labyrinth, it was not large enough to stand nor sit on.
Far from it.
Then one day I returned for a maintenance visit and of all the stones, that was the only one which was missing.
I re-placed the disappeared centre stone with a much larger, heavier stone. Not just a dinosaur egg but a really big stone.
Some days later, I found yet another large rock during low tide in False Creek and placed it beside the first re-placement stone.
Since then, I have randomly seen people stand upon those two rocks once they reach the centre.
This is the first instance of seeing someone sitting on them.
Perhaps reaching the centre of the Vancouver Public Labyrinth then sitting and watching the setting set is a thing . . .
Where else to begin the next Journey in Life with friends than from inside The Centre of The Vancouver Public Labyrinth . . .
My Earlscourt Park Wading Pool Labyrinth remains to date, my largest in diameter painted Labyrinth.
So large, yet still recognizable as a Labyrinth even from a good distance . . .
Windsor Labyrinth, Sunday July 21 2013
During my 30 Masjids Ontario Ramadan Roadtrip, I chalked out this Labyrinth in Windsor, Ontario.
Golden Rays of the Evening Sun sets beyond my Grange Park Labyrinth in Downtown Toronto . . .
Most of the North South lines of this Labyrinth I painted Blue, thus matching the South wall of the Frank Gehry designed Box atop the Art Gallery of Ontario.
East West lines I painted mostly white, to match the Ontario College of Art and Design Shoebox floating in the sky above the main OCAD Building.
Sunset reveals white of the East West much more than blue of the North South.
The Sir Casimir Gzowski Park wading pool was my second labyrinth stop on this Thanksgiving Sunday 2011.
Having biked from Howard Junior Public School after experiencing their Species of The Humber Watershed playground labyrinth, I was en route to Butterfly Park just west of the Humber River. The original intention for the day was to create a giant Butterfly shaped labyrinth design. It has been on my mind for the past two summers, and today I finally made the time.
Watching a mother and son walk my wading pool labyrinth brought a smile to my face. Looking over to children climbing the nearby playground equipment, my eyes were drawn to the empty spot on the beach immediately south of the boardwalk.
As often happens in my labyrinth building, serendipity takes over and something else, somewhere else gets built first.
Only a moment was needed to decide to abandon plans for the Butterfly Labyrinth. Maybe it will get done next summer? Or the summer after that?
…I began measuring, then outlining circles in the sand… More Photos
