As usual, the most comprehensive maintenance in Grange Park involves @GoodbyeGraffiti contractors, in a rain storm, power-washing the labyrinth that'll be redrawn by the weekend: pic.twitter.com/RDSRPQzXxQ
— Jonathan Goldsbie (@goldsbie) September 27, 2022
The Labyrinth is Grange Park Playground Infrastructure that has been installed at Zero Cost to the Taxpayer.
Yet repeated investment by "This" Taxpayer.
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) September 27, 2022
Oh for the … I live right by here and hate that they keep removing it. I see kids running around it having fun all the time. What on earth harm is it.
— nicole (she/her) (@iheartmuseums) September 27, 2022
Who would pay to remove the labyrinth??? They are so well done I assumed they were a city sponsored art project. They get a community asset for free and then they pay to remove it??? WTF.
— Ryan Abcede (@RyeABC) September 27, 2022
"They are so well done…"
Thank you.
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) September 27, 2022
Sorry, this is too much whimsy. Labyrinths obviously exceed the whimsy guidelines. https://t.co/h6W8hwsVvI
— C Bailey (@CBailey6) September 27, 2022
“GUIDELINES
INCORPORATE WHIMSYa. Encourage a sense of joy and playfulness by incorporating whimsy in public art, building design, streetscapes, street furniture and parks and open space features.
b. Design child-friendly elements at a scale that responds to children that provoke the imagination and are fun, interactive, educational, musical and brightly coloured in fantastic sculptural forms.”
"…This urban artist has been creating whimsical designs in public places since he was a child. "https://t.co/wLPnl76Ai8
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) September 28, 2022
Problem, labyrinth whimsy is free.
— 20:20Hindsight 🚴♂️🇨🇦 (@Cmartoronto) September 28, 2022
can we have open bathrooms? no, only removal of a fun, whimsical piece of art. love my local park despite it all. https://t.co/V7p7WCThP3
— Michelle (@michellekearnel) September 27, 2022
Imagine how much money could be saved by simply commissioning the artwork that literally everybody enjoys instead of scrubbing it away every couple months https://t.co/Odm65eQA7w
— Elizabeth Keay (@eliz_keay) September 27, 2022
@johntory – Take the money we pay to remove them and hire @LabyrinthsDOTca as Toronto's Labyrinth Laureate
— George Bell (@georgebell) September 28, 2022
That labyrinth is a community uniter.
I live by Grange Park and see people bonding over it every single day. Why do you hate joy? #johntorystoronto
— natasha 🌐 (@natashanwar_) September 28, 2022
That's my local park and I see children playing in that labyrinth all the time, like why!!!?? What curmudgeon did this offend who complained?
We can't get the water fountains or washrooms opened on time but we have the money to power wash fun away. https://t.co/YV5WrjhzBt
— Alex Beheshti (@beheshtialex) September 27, 2022