by Carlyn Yandle | Feb 27, 2015 | Art Show, Assemblage, Challenge, Collaboration, Collage, Composition, Creative Process, Domestic, Domestic Interventions, Experimentation, Facebook, Failure, Found Objects, Ideas, Inspiration, Making, Monte Clark, Omer Arbel, Paper, Pattern, Toybits
Vancouver-based creative force Omer Arbel and Monte Clark teamed up to embrace the power of happy accidents (Carlyn Yandle photo) Last week Monte Clark gave four of us some insight into how an experiment by Omer Arbel went awry and ended up as a dazzling installation...
by Carlyn Yandle | Feb 20, 2015 | Art, Challenge, Collage, Connie Sabo, Creative Process, Experimentation, Failure, Found Objects, Glue, Ideas, Innovation, Paper, Playing, Recycle, Social Media, Upcycling
Vancouver artist Connie Sabo threw the current Facebook challenge (three artworks a day for five days) to me this week. I’m taking on the challenge for the chance to create three art experimentations per day, as opposed to sharing three artworks on each of those...
by Carlyn Yandle | Feb 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
A couple of weeks back in this space I was musing about the fusing of crocheted granny squares and the ubiquitous breeze-wall bricks of my East Van youth. Granny Brick prototype (Carlyn Yandle photo) Since then I have been playing with the ideas of mixing concrete...
by Carlyn Yandle | Feb 6, 2015 | Additive, Architecture, Bauhaus, Building, Critique, Design, William Morris
One of the biggest lessons learned from a career in newspaper journalism was, surprisingly, the difference between decoration and design. It began when I built up basic layout skills using paper dummies, reduction wheel, metal pica-pole (also good for gouging into...
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