Merrie Yule to all. We've passed the Longest Night; time to let go and welcome the Light! Vancouver Labyrinth from @SecretLantern pic.twitter.com/OoMfGPG35F
— Alice Dubiel (@odaraia) December 23, 2016
Merrie Yule to all. We've passed the Longest Night; time to let go and welcome the Light! Vancouver Labyrinth from @SecretLantern pic.twitter.com/OoMfGPG35F
— Alice Dubiel (@odaraia) December 23, 2016
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 . . .
I wonder if my repainting of this Labyrinth changed its Soundscape . . . ?
Made a Masking Tape #Labyrinth
At Vancouver Public Space Network (@vpsn) 10th Anniversary Party
| #PlacemakingWeek pic.twitter.com/8BvgdNY6qt
— HïMY SYeD (@LabyrinthsDOTca) 16 September 2016
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 . . .
And those would be my paint cans as I stepped back and took a break while this image was taken . . .
Sunday Afternoon Labyrinth Walk.
Modified Classic Labyrinth design chalked in the middle of Grandview Park, in the Commercial Drive neighbourhood of East Vancouver.
Trees in Devonian Park throwing shade upon The Labyrinth…
| #placemaking #Labyrinths #Vancouver pic.twitter.com/WfgIqewwVS
— HïMY SYeD (@LabyrinthsDOTca) August 20, 2016
Chalked a Classic Labyrinth with random sized lane widths in Devonian Park, Vancouver.
The spot is a crossroads of sorts, with cyclists, roller-bladers, walkers and joggers all passing through it.
But I didn’t realize that before I began chalking.
It’s a very people-busy thoroughfare, opposite of ideal for meditative, nor playful, Labyrinth walking.
Labyrinth running…?
Maybe if one is quick, so people passing through won’t bump into you.
Still, two brothers riding their bikes, decided to stop cycling, drop their wheels, then decided to rush in, out, then through the Labyrinth a number of times, all as I was about to leave for the evening.
This is really cool!
A timelapse of two children, one, Miguel, stays in the centre while the other walks out from the centre of my Chalk Labyrinth in MacLean Park.
I had re-chalked this particular East Vancouver Labyrinth just the day before, on Wednesday morning.
Video captured curated by Jonathan Cruz.
Quite Surprised how well this One-Week-Old Chalk #Labyrinth in McLean Park remains walkable.
| #EastVan #Labyrinths pic.twitter.com/ub2X4D02qW
— HïMY SYeD (@LabyrinthsDOTca) August 17, 2016
Claimed empty spot of road by Kids area of #ChinatownFest in #Vancouver
Chalked a 5 Lane #Labyrinth.#VanChinatown pic.twitter.com/ELVajY2f7A
— HïMY SYeD (@LabyrinthsDOTca) August 13, 2016
Vancouver’s Chinatown Festival takes over a number of streets in the city’s Downtown East Side each summer.
It’s a full weekend of programming, and I spent the early part of Saturday Afternoon soaking it all it before deciding to pull out the chalk.
I found the children’s area and took over an unclaimed spot beside a big bouncy castle kind of thing that you fill up with air and little kids, well, walk and go bouncing through.
Chalked a simple Five Lane Labyrinth, including a spelling error(!), then I waited. And Waited. And waited some more. In the shade of course, another HOT day. Yet, no Labyrinth Walkers.
Chalked an 11 Lane Labyrinth in MacLean Park in the Strathcona Neighbourhood of East Vancouver.
