“Labyrinthes à Toronto !
Je n’ai pas eu le temps de les faire tous, les labyrinthes sont trés populaires à Toronto !
Il y a en a au moins 12..
Et encore, je suis tombé sur certains qui n’étaient pas répertoriés !
Des labyrinthes dans les parcs, en pleine rue, dans les jardins d’enfants, près d’églises ou encore en installation temporaire prés du lac Ontario…”
Dancers Performing atop my Heart Labyrinth on Augusta Avenue on Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market.
What does one do when they reach the Centre of The Labyrinth and stand atop the Heart found in the Middle?
Smile!
TDot Batu Samba Reggae closed out the July 30 2023 Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market with a Drumming Parade up beginning at the bottom of Kensington Avenue winding through Kensington Market and north up Augusta Avenue.
Along the way,
TDot Batu paused atop my Re-Painted Labyrinths near the Kensington Garden Car until finally arriving on North Augusta Avenue at my then still-in-progress painting of a Pass-Through Labyrinth.
I too then paused to enjoy their Drumming…
Yeeeeaaahhhh….
This was kinda weird.
I really did not want to have my picture taken like this, yet I didn’t feel I had any choice.
You might be able to tell that by the look on my face.
Reflecting on it,
This was the perhaps the first time I had a Vancouver experience here in my hometown of Toronto.
In Vancouver I kept silently wondering to myself “What Planet Am I On?” as I had one positive experience after another after another with Vancouver Police Officers.
Vancouver Bicycle Cops would stop and thank me for making Chalk Labyrinths all around VanCity, one even wanted to simply shake my hand, that was at the TaiwanFest on Granville.
Other times, Vancouver Police would LOAN ME TRAFFIC PYLONS and even move them into place and direct traffic around my Labyrinths while in progress and then once completed.
Again, that permanent question “What Planet Am I On?” persisted in me as every time that happened, I had to, almost as a necessary “Must”, contrast my Labyrinth Making encounters between Toronto’s Cops and Vancouver’s.
On this Pedestrian Sunday,
I again asked myself, “What Planet Am I On?” but this time, it was IN Toronto, NOT Vancouver.
Me Re-Painting the Square Labyrinth, with the Heart in Middle, I first painted onto Augusta Avenue during the May 2023 Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market.
Muslimah walking my Re-Painted Square Labyrinth with her Little One on Augusta Avenue during Pedestrian Sunday.
Me smiling with a Little One while Re-Painting & Expanding my Heart Labyrinth on Augusta Avenue during Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market…
Grateful for this photograph.
That’s me,
The Labyrinth Maker,
Re-painting the one inch wide Yellow painted outline of the Labyrinth
With a three inch wide paint roller making the Labyrinth Green.
Eventually the kids gave up waiting for me to finish,
They began walking/running around me from Entrance to the Centre,
Where they’d find the Heart of the Labyrinth.
Labyrinth…
STreet ART ?
STart at The HeART !
Augusta Avenue, Kensington Market.
Painted on Pedestrian Sunday just passed…
My Heart Labyrinth on August Avenue.
Maracatu Mar Aberto,
The Afro-Brazilian Music Awesomeness pauses and performs atop my Baltic Wheel Labyrinth which I painted on Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market,
Before they continued advancing north on Augusta Avenue.
Maracatu Mar Aberto previously performed atop my Heart Labyrinth painted in the middle of the intersection of Baldwin & Augusta during the September 2019 Pedestrian Sunday.
Yvonne Bambrick, The CARDENer, and me in front of Meryl Street, Kensington Market’s new Garden Car!
We’re standing atop the Green Leaves with Yellow Veins which I painted around the Garden Car during the beginning hour of the First Pedestrian Sunday of 2023.
Shoe-level view of the Heart Labyrinth I painted on Augusta Avenue on Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market.
You can spot me in the top right of this photograph,
Where I was painting the fourth and final Labyrinth of the day…
