by Carlyn Yandle | May 29, 2014 | Art Discourse, Billy Patko, Craft, Crafts, Creative Process, Crochet, Douglas-coupland, Exhibit, Found Objects, Gallery, Handwork, Hot Art Wet City, Ideas, Inspiration, Lynda Barry, Playing, Process, Project, Rachael Ashe, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Vancouver
I would rather watch the little kids in my life play than watch the best TV. But it’s tricky because they don’t like to be observed and if they feel I’m too interested, they are on to me and it all comes to a halt. I have to refrain from the urge to...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
I’ve blown valuable vacation days at one all-inclusive Cancun resort and on one gargantuan cruise ship and I can safely say as long as I can stand upright and feed myself I will not endure either again.There’s no place there for getting my mojo back...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 9, 2014 | Art, Art School, Creative Process, ECUAD, Emily Carr University, Exhibit, Gallery, Granville-island, Ideas, Innovation, Inspiration, Paint, Painting, Playing, Vancouver, Visual Field
The mammoth art museum experience is like an all-inclusive resort for the mind: there’s so much coming at you the brain binges ’til it can’t party anymore. Unless you’re an art history major, what’s hanging on those soaring walls and...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 2, 2014 | Art, Business, Cultural Hub, Eastside Culture Crawl, ECUAD, Emily Carr University, Exhibit, Gallery, Vancouver
My daily work corner is one-third of a shared 800-square-foot studio of a mouldering building in the shadow of numerous condo-tower cranes in Mount Pleasant, with a combined rent of more than $1,000 per month. In the four years that I’ve managed to hold onto...
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