Centre of The Labyrinth . . .
Eglinton Park Wading Pool Labyrinth when it’s a Wading Pool in Summer . . .
What a way to celebrate – with ❤️❤️grandkids on opening day of wading pools. Happy Canada Day #grateful #CanadaDay2020 🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/1EvnUcMmSk
— Caron Gan (@carongan1) July 1, 2020
Before painting Labyrinths on this Pier overlooking Alder Bay in Vancouver,
I asked as many neighbourhood people as I could,
what regular events happened in this public space ?
Beyond an annual one day community garage sale / swap meet,
nothing happened else was programmed here.
It might be that my painting several Labyrinths here, transforming this pier into Labyrinth Pier, plus the Pandemic shutting down many indoor events, has brought out this Salsa Dance class . . .
Vancouverites dancing inside their social circle bubbles atop the faded outline of one of several Labyrinths I painted to create “Labyrinth Pier Vancouver”.
Will have to visit and repaint these Labyrinths once I can travel back to Vancity.
In Toronto,
I paint Labyrinths on the surfaces of Wading Pools.
Wading Pools sometimes become velodromes for Tricycles and Bicycles,
as Parents or Grandparents teach their little ones how to ride a bike.
In Vancouver,
I painted Labyrinths onto a Pier overlooking Alder Bay.
Here too on Labyrinth Pier,
Little Ones learn to bike . . .
This drone image of Habitat Island captured by Vancitypixels was inspired by Jeremy Lee’s Drone Image of the same.
Like Jeremy’s drone photograph of Habitat Island in False Creek,
This image incidentally also includes TWO of my Labyrinths !
First one, Vancouver Public Labyrinth, is easily visible and shown here.
The second one is barely visible,
That’s my Green Masking Tape Labyrinth I made on the round cement art podium in Hinge Park.
This drone photograph was captured around 7 p.m. on June 6 2020.
To my knowledge,
this is the first aerial drone image of my Vancouver Public Labyrinth.
Grateful to Jeremy Lee in Vancouver for sharing his drone image on Instagram.
His intention was to capture Habitat Island,
My Stone Labyrinth being in view was a bonus.
I rotated the Instagram image 90 degrees to reflect a true east-west orientation.
Incidentally,
The round cement circle you can see in Hinge Park is the location of my Green Masking Tape Labyrinth !
My Hinge Park Labyrinth has since become a Ghost Labyrinth with barely a walkable masking tape outline remaining at present.
The south east quadrant of the Vancouver Public Labyrinth dips just enough to allow rainwater to pool into puddle nurturing tall grass . . .
You can still make out the path.
It follows where the grass grew tall around the rocks and stones which outline the Labyrinth . . .
Nature nurturing a Hedge Maze from within my Stone Labyrinth ?
Drone Photograph of David Crombie Park’s Basketball court.
Immediately north of the Basketball court,
You can see my Green & Blue colour painted Labyrinth in the top of the image.
I’m surprised with how visible it is !
Today is Day 26 of Ramadan 2020.
This video is from my journey to Madinah, Saudi Arabia in May/June of 2011.
I was walking from my youth hostel to visit Masjid Qiblatain.
Masjid Qiblatain is known for having two Mihrabs, or Prayer Niches.
Originally,
Muslims had faced north west from Madinah towards Masjid Al Aqsa in Jerusalem when praying.
A time came when the Direction of Prayer, the Qibla, was turned south east towards Makkah.
Hence,
The Masjid with Two Qibla.
En route,
A traffic island in the distance somehow caught my curiosity.
Alhumdulillah,
A Triangle Topiary Hedge Labyrinth !
Discovering this was a HUGE moment for me.
Muslims in The Holy City of Madinah were also making Labyrinths !
Afterwards,
I found a a small playground near Masjid Qiblatain.
In that park,
I outlined a simple three lane Classic Labyrinth in the sand and walked it.
Turning north and south and east and west.
Not unlike the Turn in Congregational Prayer Direction from Jerusalem to Makkah in the Masjid I was about to enter and visit.
— HïMY SYeD 🕌 30 Masjids in 30 Days of Ramadan 2020 (@30masjids) May 2, 2020
It's been life transforming so far. Walked on foot around this city: to Mount Uhud; prayed in masjid al Qiblatain; made a labyrinth; cried.
— HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD) May 31, 2011
I was 10 when my Family performed Hajj;
We visited #Madinah;
Did I "see" #Labyrinths then?
Ergo, my inspiration?https://t.co/MPpY9LNPVY pic.twitter.com/xFseSU9MWH
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) May 8, 2017
The cyclist has stopped atop one of the Labyrinths I painted on Augusta Avenue during a previous Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market . . .
The cyclist has stopped atop one of the Labyrinths I painted during a previous Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market . . .https://t.co/cn2MqQqxZQ
| #Labyrinths🍥 #walkTO🚶🏽♂️
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) May 15, 2020
