by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 29, 2014 | Aluminum, Art, City As Site, Cluster, Commission, Construction, Creative Process, Exhibit, Gallery, Innovation, Inspiration, Installation, Project, Public Art, Rachel Lafo, Richmond Art Gallery, Sculpture, Social Engagement
It’s one thing to dream up an idea for the back end of the elevated Canada Line track and quite another to see that dream come together in a mammoth aluminum sculpture. Metal fabrication at the Select Steel shop, Delta. Carlyn Yandle photo So when I got my first...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 22, 2014 | Art, Commission, Lost Painting, Paint, Painting, Vancouver, Vancouver International Airport, YVR
Grey Lace, 2014, by Carlyn Yandle. Acrylic on canvas, 40″ x 67″ This week I am testing the usefulness of social media in locating a painting.Grey Lace is not my first commission, but a favourite, done over two months this past winter. It is an abstract...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 14, 2014 | Architecture, Building, Construction, Creative Process, Design, Industrial Design, Innovation, Invention, Street Art
Carlyn Yandle photo We were a bit of a spectacle, using survivalist technology outside our tent wedged between the humming, air-conditioned RVs, but we were aching to use our car-camping trip to finally test the BioLite.And it was good. (See 26-second YouTube review,...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 1, 2014 | Art Discourse, Blogs, Critique, Cultural Studies, Culture, Culture Jamming, Dafen Village, Environmental Art, Expression, Found Objects, Inspiration, Kyoto, Marketing, Meditative, Motivation, Photography, Process, Social Engagement, Social Media, Vancouver, Wood
Zen Garden, Buddhist Temple, Japan The first time I saw a “dry landscape” Zen garden in one of the hundreds of temples in Kyoto, my brain sort of short-circuited.This was the mid-’80s, and here was a Zen Buddhist priest meticulously raking the gravel...
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