Siva running through the High Park Labyrinth by Hawk Hill . . .
Children never walk a Labyrinth, Children always run!
In this sunlight,
Look closely,
You can make out Orange and White painted lines of my Grange Park Labyrinth . . .
The Surface of the Wading Pool remains cracked and decrepit.
The painted colours of my Labyrinth could use a refresh . . .
The surface of the wading pool is cracked and crumbling.
Yet The Labyrinth remains walkable;
And Skateboardable!
Grange Park Labyrinth, an important part of Downtown Toronto’s Grange Park !
Great mid day walk through of Grange Park with members of GPAC and GCA discussing challenges and opps #TOpoli #ward20 pic.twitter.com/VFS3KHOOwn
— Anshul Kapoor (@Anshul_K) August 26, 2014
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!
The surface of this wading pool in Bellevue Square Park has reached its end of life.
No matter how many times I repaint my Labyrinth, no combination of colours can overcome the shortcomings of the canvas.
Labyrinth remains walkable, yet doing so isn’t as much fun as when I first painted it . . .
There are five multi-coloured Classic Labyrinths I first painted on Easter Sunday 2009 along the pathway beside the ice hockey rink in the north-east corner of Trinity-Bellwoods Park, Toronto.
The five Labyrinths are 3, 7, 3, 11 and 3 Lanes respectively.
Together,
They comprise what I call The “Trinity-Bellwoods Park Labyrinth Walk”.
This is the 7 Lane Classic Labyrinth at the south end of The Walk . . .
Cool new (a-"maze"-ing) street art in the market @ Kensington Market http://t.co/X3t5CKrVYo
— Ben Pelchat (@benpelchat) October 29, 2013
The Heavyweights Brass Band performing atop the Labyrinth I painted on Kensington Avenue just south of Fitzroy Terrace during the Hallowe’en edition of Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market, Toronto. . .
