Looking east over David Crombie Park in Old Town Toronto towards Downtown. Look beyond Basketball wall and you may recognize the square outline of the green and blue Labyrinth I painted there last year . . . View this post on Instagram I’ve been waiting my whole life for just one shot🏀 • • 📸 […]
I first painted a a green and yellow Labyrinth on this pavelock brick circle beside the Basketball courts in Christie Pits Park on Thursday June 8 2006. I’ve repainted it at least once. Grass has overtaken it. I don’t know that I will paint it again. Maybe it’s okay as it is, A Fading Green […]
Toronto & Vancouver City of Labyrinths is a Project to create public Labyrinths within walking distance of every Torontonian & Vancouverite.
Intended to create safe walking spaces for both play and contemplation.
Labyrinths are placed in parks, public spaces, during neighbourhood street parties or major urban festivals like Pedestrian Sunday Kensington Market in Toronto or Car Free Days in Vancouver.
HiMY SYeD – Labyrinth Maker & Project Co-ordinator
Traditional: recognizes lands traditionally used and/or occupied by the People or First Nations in parts of the country.
Ancestral: recognizes land that is handed down from generation to generation.
Unceded: refers to land that was not turned over to the Crown (government) by a treaty or other agreement.
Labyrinths are made on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples –
Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish),
Stó:lō and
Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh)
and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.
Labyrinths are made in traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of
the Kwantlen,
the Katzie,
the Semiahmoo
and Tsawwassen First Nations.
