Let Your Eyes Out to Play.
The Long Play is a mosaic mural that brings imaginative play to the back of the bouldering wall at Element Park in St. Albert.
Nothing here needs a correct answer. Find a creature. Invent a story. Come back and see something completely different.
A little wild goes a long way
The Long Play began with people making things without worrying too much about what they were supposed to be. During community workshops, children and adults drew, made marks, and played with mosaic. We carried that fearless spirit into the mural: shapes that could be several things at once, unlikely neighbours, and room for the unexpected.
mosaic
someday,
a child will stand here
and look up at this wall.
they won’t know
how the colours began.
they won’t know
about the hands that gathered,
the drawings that wandered,
the tiles turned to creatures
and flew for an afternoon
they will simply see
the door to a world
awaiting its completion, its purpose,
in their own tiny finger
tracing out lines on a wall.
and of course a mosaic is never one thing
It’s countless tiny things
learning to belong, become one
call it a community:
not sameness,
but difference
learning the shape
of together
now come closer
bring your questions, your wonder
bring that wild idea
you never told a soul.
there is room for it here
Tyler Enfield
St. Albert’s Poet Laureate
The Long Play (2026)
Element Park, St. Albert, AB.