by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
My mother remembers seeing a military band perform in the Alexandra Park bandstand across from English Bay, in the early 1950s. I watched a Jazz Festival performance there this summer. But the bandstand itself is one of those very Vancouver heritage features that you...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
What with all the trips to the thrift shops, followed by a frenzy of snip-snipping and glue-gun-play, the posting part of Halloween takes a back seat. Yet I’m compelled to write up a record of the making, not to display any costume-construction prowess but to...
by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 16, 2015 | Color, Colour, Distracts, Grid, Painting, Psychedelic, Quilt, Textile, Visual Field
Gotta love Salvation Army and the staff’s peculiar display choices. Every other store would break up all the retail items so each one looks unique, but at my local Salarmy they sort by colour, making finding your size sort of a crapshoot. But oh, that visual...
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 29, 2015 | AgentC Gallery, Exhibition, Found Objects, Maker, Sculpture, Surrey, Vancouver
It is excruciating to junk a piece of, well, in this case, junk. But it has to be done. Such is the reality of the Vancouver maker who likes to work large but lives in a small space. So I sacrifice Charm Bracelet, following the end of its one and only showing at the...
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 19, 2015 | Assemblage, Creative Process, Found Objects, Playing, Sculpture, Toybits, Upcycling
Just for the record, my Toybits were created far, far before Mad Max: Fury Road hit the theatres — although the resemblance of those Metallica-esque assault vehicles to my small sculptures is uncanny. For some inexplicable reason (even to myself) I have been...
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