… AND Labyrinths !
I painted five of them on Augusta Avenue along the east side of Bellevue Square Park on the first official Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market.
PSK was suspended during 2020 and 2021 due to the Pandemic.

… AND Labyrinths !
I painted five of them on Augusta Avenue along the east side of Bellevue Square Park on the first official Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market.
PSK was suspended during 2020 and 2021 due to the Pandemic.
Here is Shamez Amlani with his Bicycle atop the Heart Labyrinth I painted during Pedestrian Sunday in the Baldwin & Augusta Avenue intersection in Kensington Market.
Shamez is one of the four original Co-Founders of Streets Are For People, who championed Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington Market (and in two other Toronto Neighbourhoods as well).
He’s also my friend and has always supported the Toronto City of Labyrinths Project!
That’s me (re)painting the Heart Labyrinth in the middle of the Baldwin & Augusta “T” Intersection during Pedestrian Sunday Kensington Market . . .
That’s me painting the Heart Labyrinth in the middle of the Baldwin and Augusta Avenue Intersection in Kensington Market during the previous Pedestrian Sunday . . .
Squint closely and you might spot me sporting my blue Labyrinth shirt while painting the farthest most Labyrinth in this image . . .
Looking north on Augusta Avenue showing two of the four Labyrinths I painted here . . .
The top of my Labyrinth in the bottom of this photograph . . .
Augusta Avenue, Kensington Market, Toronto.
Maracatu Mar Aberto . . .
Atop the Heart Labyrinth I painted in the middle of the Baldwin & Augusta Avenue intersection in Kensington Market, Downtown Toronto . . .
Heart Labyrinth I painted in the middle of the Baldwin and Augusta Intersection . . .
Before I began re-painting my months old Labyrinths on Augusta Avenue which were showing wear and tear, I saw children exploring and enjoying them as they were . . .
Seeing this, I felt something wonderful.
Their imagination perhaps filling in the breaks and gaps in the walls and arcs of my painted designs.
That as much as anything else is why I keep painting Labyrinths in Public Spaces where children discover them.
This little one’s mom asked if her kid could run/walk the Labyrinth before I had completely finished painting it.
Who am I to get in the way of Awe & Wonder ?
He smiled the entire way into the centre and back . . .
Nice angle capturing all the Labyrinths I painted on North Augusta Avenue . . .
This was the final Labyrinth I painted on North Augusta Avenue before the street was re-opened to vehicular traffic this past Pedestrian Sunday Kensington Market.
As I finished chalking, Yvonne Bambrick informed me I had barely 30 minutes to paint the chalk outline of my design, before the cars began rolling through.
I rushed the painting and took every short cut I could to complete at least a single coat of paint atop the chalk outline.
Only one Aglet was transformed into a Heart.
The Heart at the top of the Labyrinth was left with only the outline painted and one long brush roll half-way into the centre of it.
I was shocked, surprised, satisfied with how fast I painted it.
It was walk-able. Which numerous people began to do.
Yet many more people self-organized for group photographs captured atop the Labyrinth.
I’m still basking in the glow, the feeling, the learnings, from this Red Labyrinth.
Something has changed for me.
I can complete painted Labyrinths a LOT faster than I thought.
When Yvonne gave that 30 minute warning, she didn’t dissuade me from beginning to paint, she simply let me factually know I had a deadline.
My mind wanted to blurt out loud, “Challenge Accepted.”
…I kept that to myself.
Humility. The hell with my Hubris.
Result ?
This Red Labyrinth . . .
My painted Street Labyrinths often become focal points, stage venues for Performers . . .