The surface of this wading pool in Bellevue Square Park has reached its end of life.
No matter how many times I repaint my Labyrinth, no combination of colours can overcome the shortcomings of the canvas.
Labyrinth remains walkable, yet doing so isn’t as much fun as when I first painted it . . .
Fire Breathing !
Literally in The Labyrinth !
Whoops !
Skateboarders have told me the Labyrinth’s lines I paint help them with situation awareness when boarding round and round the Wading Pool . . .
“Oops I Wiin” markered upon one of the arcs of the Labyrinth I painted in the Wading Pool in Bellevue Square Park in Kensington Market . . .
They won hunh?
…Sure.
Why not.
Happy Walking!
Sometimes people skateboard through my Labyrinths rather than walk . . .
Labyrinth or maze? Whatever the case, people actually do try it: #KM5T http://twitpic.com/5euwzm #showyourballs
— Kensington Market (@kensington_m5t) June 21, 2011
Growing up in Toronto, one invariably will travel the subway system. For years, just east of the Victoria Park station, I would spot this wading pool in the park officially known as Prairie Drive Park but most people think of it as the south end of Warden Woods.
I always thought of the many thousands of people who look through the window of the subway train, and see this empty circle of concrete.
In May 2007, I finally got around to painting a labyrinth there. The circuits are white and I used a thin paint brush. Those choices made it less easy to identify from the distance of a speeding train what it is than I would have liked. More Photos
