Chalked a different, yet this time around it was a precisely measured nine lane “Peace Labyrinth” in the same intersection as last year’s Toronto Ukrainian Festival.
Checkout the peace labyrinth at Bloor and Armadale pic.twitter.com/70p6rS3AnS
— Toronto Ukrainian Festival (@TorUkrFestival) September 16, 2023
“This was such a lovely addition!
It was delightful to see kids winding around it and discovering the magic and benefit of Labyrinths.”
“I came across that just a while ago, literally.”
The peace labyrinth created by Toronto artist Himy Syed @LabyrinthsDOTca pic.twitter.com/j4Puio7omC
— Toronto Ukrainian Festival (@TorUkrFestival) September 17, 2022
Can’t say enough good things about @LabyrinthsDOTca’s work. These are key activations that make it fun to walk our streets!
— Norm Di Pasquale – Ward 11 City Council Candidate (@normsworld) September 18, 2022
" Peace Labyrinth " 🍥
" Лабіринт Мир "
Toronto Ukrainian Festival 2022
Armadale Avenue & Bloor Street West Intersection
Bloor West Village
| #Labyrinths🍥 #TorontoUkrainianFestival🇺🇦 #BloorWestVillage https://t.co/hyQt9ahUKE pic.twitter.com/ZOeNGEqWWj
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) September 18, 2022
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.
Saturday Afternoon spent chalking three Labyrinths in and around the Central Playground of Brampton’s Chinguacousy Park.
I was so focused on making the Labyrinths,
I only took a few photographs.
And altogether forgot to take any photographs of my third Labyrinth, a pass-through baltic design closer to the spray pad area.
It was that time of day,
Before the photographer’s Golden Hour when natural lighting is at its best for image captures,
When long shadows make it challenging to properly photograph the Labyrinths I draw in chalk on the ground.
So I only took two more less than satisfactory photographs to simply remember and remind myself of the day.
People walking the Labyrinths came in waves, when one would walk, many then followed.
Perhaps as many teens and grown-ups walked them as the total number of children who kept returning to re-walk them.
I lost track of time and was mostly in the moment.
Making Labyrinths has become my Mindfulness practice as much as walking Labyrinths.
Around the largest of the afternoon’s three Labyrinths,
I chalked the word for Labyrinths in a number of Brampton’s most spoken Languages.
Somehow the late afternoon rays of sunlight peeking through the trees and landing upon my multi-colour chalk Labyrinth,
Looks very much like the colours of sunlight passing through the stained glass windows of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, as it illuminated the Labyrinth inside the Church.
Image I took of the Labyrinth inside Grace Cathedral in SF back in 2013.
“Finally met the inestimable HïMY SYeD after randomly deciding to host a family gathering from far-flung areas of the GTA at Chinguacousy Park this afternoon.
Love and appreciate his work.”
Finally met the inestimable @LabyrinthsDOTca after randomly deciding to host a family gathering from far-flung areas of the GTA at Chinguacousy Park this afternoon. Love and appreciate his work. pic.twitter.com/a43JwIVmFN
— Robert Wakulat (@robertwakulat) June 5, 2022
Well @CityBrampton you do a solid job with your parks. Preschooler is beyond thrilled here at Chinguacousy Park. pic.twitter.com/vjHmJUhdvV
— Robert Wakulat (@robertwakulat) June 5, 2022
Fifteen Grade 9 Students at Brampton’s Only All-Girls Catholic Secondary School walking my second Proof-of-Concept Chalk Labyrinth.
The width of the Labyrinth outlines were chalked/re-chalked in 3 inch widths, the same width as my go-to size when painting permanent Labyrinths using paint rollers.
This second Labyrinth Candidate Location works.
— HolyNameofMaryCSS (@HNMCSS) November 10, 2021
Because there is ample space on either side of my Nine Lane circular chalk design seen here,
Final design can include additional wing-like lanes afforded by the rectangular asphalt canvas space.
I’ve been approached by the Chaplaincy at Holy Name of Mary Catholic Secondary School in Brampton, Ontario to help them with locating and making a Labyrinth on their high school campus.
https://t.co/2kf9Cew7sH pic.twitter.com/T1tf6FhiEW
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) October 19, 2021
This seven lane Chalk Labyrinth was my quickly chalked Proof-of-Concept in one of our candidate spaces,
An asphalt service lane beside their athletic field . . .
Parking Lot seen in the background below is the better candidate location for a Labyrinth painted on asphalt.
Ergo,
A second Proof-of-Concept Chalk Labyrinth is needed to see if the Parking Lot works best.
Children exploring Labyrinth I chalked in Withrow Park where the paths meet . . .
Heart in the Centre of one the Labyrinths I chalked on Augusta Avenue in Kensington Market Toronto on the first care-free Pedestrian Sunday of 2019 . . .
Late in the evening capture of Augusta Avenue on the first Pedestrian Sunday of the Year.
Look closely, and you can just make out the well trodden, by then very faded chalk outlines of the Labyrinths I made earlier…
Often enough, people never ever walk the Labyrinths I chalk or paint or make, instead they choose to jump in somewhere to capture and share a self-portrait with the Labyrinth in the background.
Much like this one . . .
Here’s me earlier today chalking Labyrinths atop Augusta Avenue in Kensington Market, Toronto on the first car-free Pedestrian Sunday of the Year . . .
Throw Back Tuesday post of one my Heart Design Chalk Labyrinths along the North East False Creek Seawall in Vancouver . . .
