This image is the Labyrinth I painted in the Wading Pool in Kempton Howard Park in Toronto.
The Park is opposite my Grade 7 and 8 Senior Public School, Earl Grey.
When I was a student there, this park had no wading pool.
Years later, I returned after a Wading Pool had been installed in the park, and painted this Labyrinth . . .
The Toronto Public Labyrinth in Trinity Square Park like I’ve never seen it before!
Were the leaves swept to the edges of the Labyrinth as people walked it?
A meniscus curve of fallen foliage ?
My Original colours of the Labyrinth in Grange Park were Blue and White with squares of Black.
The Blue was meant to match the Blue of the Giant Wall of the Frank Gehry addition to The Art Gallery of Ontario.
The White and Black was to match the White and Black of the Giant Floating Shoebox in the Sky of the Ontario College of Art and Design.
Both The AGO and OCAD were line of sight when standing in or around my Grange Park Labyrinth.
So the matching colour scheme seemed to reveal itself.
That was Winter and Spring.
It’s now the middle of Summer.
The Green Leaves of the growing trees have naturally veiled the line of sight between the Grange Park Labyrinth and the OCAD Shoebox.
So why not paint the Labyrinth using Orange to match the Giant Plastic Tube Slide on the Playground, which IS still visible, even from a child’s height!
My Grange Park Labyrinth remaining walkable this Winter . . .
After the Rain,
And Through the Leaves,
Blue and White lines of the Grange Park Labyrinth as seen from the Art Gallery of Ontario.
