by Carlyn Yandle | May 31, 2013 | Crochet, Doilies, Doily, Gallery, Innovation, Inspiration, Installation, Public Art, Sculpture, Street Art, Use Object
Sanitary Doily, a finalist in the City’s sewer-cover competition. I’m deluded enough to believe I can survive on an art practice in Vancouver but I am under no illusion that my Sanitary Doily will be selected to grace the city’s sanitary sewer covers...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 24, 2013 | Garden, Green Space, Industrial Design, Innovation, Inspiration, Project
I can barely remember this city before community gardens. They’re so integral to my neighbourhood, and I don’t even have a plot of my own.Aside from the obvious benefit of providing people ways to grow their own food, community gardens are also spaces of...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 17, 2013 | Art Spiegelman, Culturejammingc9d75664fd, ECUAD, Found Objects, Globalization, Portrait
Touring the Emily Carr University graduation show (aka The Show) can be exhausting. There’s work by more than 300 grads packed into those halls and classrooms — too much to take in just one visit. The best I could manage last week was a scan of the lay of the land....
by Carlyn Yandle | May 10, 2013 | Garden, Green Space, Inspiration, Metalworker, Public Art
I know I should be researching or finishing or conceiving or cleaning or thanking or discussing or working on proposals. But like everyone else in the northern Northern Hemisphere, I can barely remain indoors these fine days. Because — and I hate to be the bearer of...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 2, 2013 | Craft, Crafts, Creative Process, Doilies, Doily, Fiber Arts, Handwork, Pattern, Process, Tyvek, Wrap I, Wrap II
After a long and often painful labour, I’m happy to introduce…the twins!I’m not sure why I plumped up the two eight-foot-wide doilies, freshly completed today, for their first picture. It might have something to do with this morning’s mammogram.‘Why’ is always a scary...
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