Photo of yours truly Re-Painting the Heart Labyrinth on Kensington Avenue just popped online.
It was captured during last year’s May 29 2022 Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market.
I didn’t bother taking too many of my own photographs that day,
Grateful to see this one a year plus change later.
Red & Black,
South & West Arcs of the Circle of Benches I painted and transformed into a Medicine Wheel,
in David Crombie Park, Old Town Toronto.
These are the four arcs which comprise a Circle of Concrete Benches located inside David Crombie Park in the St. Lawrence Neighbourhood of Old Town Toronto.
I previously painted the four arcs in the four colours of the Medicine Wheel, White, Black, Red, and Yellow.
The colours though looking less sharp than when I first painted them, are holding up.
While [re]painting the Grange Park Labyrinth to remedy its absence from Grange Park over the winter,
I recognized Photojunkie Rannie Turingan as he began his & Cody’s spiralling walk towards the Heart in the Centre.
We hadn’t seen one another in person since before the Pandemic, since before I was living in Vancouver.
Rannie & Cody were officially the first Labyrinth Walkers of the renewed Grange Park Labyrinth.
The Labyrinth is gone now. pic.twitter.com/sPQM8tGUMM
— Richard Eriksson (@sillygwailo) November 18, 2022
Documenting the labyrinth in my neighbourhood park in case it’s deemed to be illegal. https://t.co/vzDDpR8NHR pic.twitter.com/fh3fgeq06g
— Richard Eriksson (@sillygwailo) September 28, 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.
Yellow painted Pass-Through Labyrinth recognizable on the right . . .
Smiling along the Labyrinth Walk in Trinity-Bellwoods Park, Downtown Toronto.
Children chalked a Heart!
AND chalked The Sun too!
Seeing some lovely child led additions to your labyrinth at St. Andrew’s Playground @LabyrinthsDOTca! pic.twitter.com/K93W38wAUU
— Norm Di Pasquale (@normsworld) August 11, 2022
“A pleasure to see HïMY SYeD at work on his Labyrinth today at St. Andrew’s Playground.
HïMY has added some much needed ❤️ to the park;
Saw many children enjoying his Labyrinth.
“Urban Acupuncture” as he calls it!”
A pleasure to see @LabyrinthsDOTca at work on his labyrinth today at St. Andrew’s Playground. Himy has added some much needed ❤️ to the park; saw many children enjoying his labyrinth. “Urban acupuncture” as he calls it! #topoli #toronto pic.twitter.com/fcLivhACWT
— Norm Di Pasquale (@normsworld) July 31, 2022
I had previously outlined a Temporary-Permanent Labyrinth in Red paint and this is still pretty much what it looked like when I arrived Today, the last Sunday Afternoon in July, to properly repaint over the outline using yellow.
The above two photographs, also taken by Norm, were captured on Sunday May 8 2022.
My earlier Labyrinth outline painted in red was okay, it did the job.
By re-painting the Labyrinth using Yellow, and this time properly painting it, not just as an outline, it’s a much better fit with the yellow colours found around the different parts of the playground.
It’s now looks like it was always supposed to be there.
And for first time visitors to St. Andrew’s Playground,
It’s likely they’d feel this Labyrinth was always a part of the Park.
That’s how Norm felt.
He said the park was incomplete until my Labyrinth was added to it.
All the while I was repainting the Labyrinth in Yellow,
Children were hovering around asking their parents if they could walk, which really means running, around the freshly painted and rapidly drying Yellow Labyrinth.
After I answered the first few parents who asked that, “Yes, it’s dry,”, kids quickly began walking and running around and playing in their new Labyrinth.
I was so caught up in conversation with Norm, I forgot to snap photographs of any of the kids playing in it.
But they and their parents were having fun, and that’s what’s in my mind’s eye and memory on this Labyrinth Making afternoon.
Norm confirmed he’s seen people walking the Labyrinth all the time, and that was when it was only outlined in red.
Arrow beside the Heart at The Start points to where you begin your journey into the freshly (Re)Painted St. Andrew’s Playground Labyrinth.
The “Heart” ❤️ of the Labyrinth inside St. Andrew’s Playground in Downtown Toronto.
“Not sure what this fabulous dance with scarves was all about but I do like it!
Wouldn’t mind joining in if they’d let me….
Spotted on my lunch break in the park.
🧣🧣🧣🧣”
The Labyrinth I painted in St. Andrew’s Playground is well lit,
Making it ideal for evening and after dark Labyrinth Walks . . .
Was wondering whether you could spot my “❤️” Heart Labyrinth in the middle of Grange Park from the top floor of The Art Gallery of Ontario.
Now we know !
