Who knows where the Portal leading to & from the David Crombie Park Labyrinth will lead you . . .
Who knows where the Portal leading to & from the David Crombie Park Labyrinth will lead you . . .
The Wading Pool in Hillcrest Park doubles as a Labyrinth,
Early this morning it tripled as the Workout space for Squad Fitness . . .
Wonderful moment of Fog engulfing Hillcrest Park,
And the Medicine Walk Labyrinth.
Looking carefully,
You may recognize the Four Colour Medicine Wheel plus “Tsí Tkaròn:to” painted within the South/Red Quadrant . . .
More excellent fog. An embarassment of fogs. pic.twitter.com/ztg8MWGlPk
— John Lorinc (@JohnLorinc) November 4, 2022
Followed up re-painting Labyrinths in nearby Kensington Market on Pedestrian Sunday,
By re-painting the latest replacement of the Grange Park Labyrinth.
At this point, the frequency of me needing to re-paint its latest removals, finds me forgetting to even bother photographing my Labyrinth remaking work at all.
So here is the first, and only, photograph so far to appear online, of the Latest version of my Grange Park Labyrinth . . .
It’s Municipal Election Day in Toronto and elsewhere in Ontario.
While I’m NOT on the Ballot today,
When I was on the Ballot running for or to lead Toronto City Council in elections past,
A vote for me then was a vote for Public Spaces,
As urbanist author John Lorinc is providing you that same reason to vote for today…
#topoli Vote for public spaces. pic.twitter.com/YNdjoiu8iK
— John Lorinc (@lorinc@mastodon.sdf.org) (@JohnLorinc) October 24, 2022
The Photograph John Lorinc included in his get-out-the-vote tweet includes the Man in The Maze Labyrinth I painted on the surface of the wading pool in Marian Engel Park.
Rather than voting for Public Spaces and hoping for the best,
Nowadays I placemake Labyrinths as my contribution to Toronto’s Public Spaces.
Labyrinth Making is easier than winning elections.
And with the ongoing destruction of municipal democracy by Queen’s Park of late,
Maybe it’s more effective than voting…?
I expect a low, very low, voter turn out today.
The city also loves to use harsh chemicals to spray away the the maze that keeps getting painted on the walkway at Grange park. Every two weeks. Meanwhile there’s “no budget” for wood chips in the dog park so the pups play in dirt
— Bretton MacLean (@Bretton) October 14, 2022
“The city also loves to use harsh chemicals to spray away the the maze that keeps getting painted on the walkway at Grange park.
Every two weeks.
Meanwhile there’s “no budget” for wood chips in the dog park so the pups play in dirt”
Ya they never seem to run out of money for that. Those guys are there all the time.
— Ramsey 🌐🔰 (@Ramsey_Kilani) October 14, 2022
“…It’s time for people to start forming organizations to protect cyclists, transit riders, pedestrians, and yes — drivers — from car-centrism.
I’m not going to spend years writing to city council that I need a crosswalk where I live — I’m just going to paint it now.
I’m not going to wait years on hundreds of thousands of dollars for impact studies blocking traffic out of neighbourhood streets.
We need to just erect the barriers and bike lanes ourselves.
Erect the bus benches ourselves.
Shrink the streets ourselves.
There’s a long history of neighbours taking matters into their own hands.
We need to bring Tactical Urbanism back. …”
TTC Riders + Tactical Urbanism = Dufferin Bus Lane
We need to bring Tactical Urbanism back.
And @TTCriders have done so.
| #TOpoli #TacticalUrbanism #TTC https://t.co/yseDieTdG6 pic.twitter.com/7lvd03OVDf
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) October 14, 2022
Chiderah Sunny spotted in yellow atop my Pass-Through Labyrinth painted on Kensington Avenue two summers ago . . .
“Labyrinth in the sidewalk of the Grange Park – Another of the many beautiful Public Labyrinths that are part of the Toronto City of Labyrinths Project, by HiMY SYeD. ❤”
The Heart Labyrinth I re-painted during the August 2022 Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market . . .
The yellow remains visible,
The red, not so much.
I’ll aim to repaint it again next PSK.
Longboarding down Augusta Avenue and over my Labyrinth at Wales Avenue,
Kensington Market, Downtown Toronto.
Sometimes,
Wandering Downtown Toronto on a Friday Night may bring you to a Labyrinth . . .
Like this one,
In St. Andrew’s Playground . . .
After OpenStreetsTO on Sunday afternoon,
I meandered my way to Grange Park to walk my Blue Labyrinth,
It’s still there,
Still painted on the surface in the middle of Grange Park.
Below the Blue Labyrinth there is enough space for another Labyrinth.
In recent weeks,
I have been randomly chalking a walkable Heart Labyrinth in this space.
Apparently, it’s still there.
This is the Heart at the Start of the Heart Labyrinth.
The curve on the left suggests a feeling like a ray from a rainbow landing on the Heart.
Yellow painted Pass-Through Labyrinth recognizable on the right . . .
Smiling along the Labyrinth Walk in Trinity-Bellwoods Park, Downtown Toronto.