by Carlyn Yandle | May 15, 2015 | Buttons, Discomforter, Fabric, Failure, Fiber, Fibre Arts, Qr Code, Quilt, Sewing
There is really no way to know whether a blanket covered in brightly coloured buttons will read until the very end of all the work so I wanted to build in the likelihood of failure. That’s how I came to decide on “The devil is in the details” as the...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 8, 2015 | ECUAD, Emily Carr University, Exhibit, Exhibition, Photography, Vancouver
“Hazel Cheng, 21, Bedroom in Family Home” (Photo by Mary Wendel Genosa) What I’d really like to see is a ‘realitylink’: an aggregate site devoted to photo tours of real Vancouver homes where people actually live, cook, eat, sleep, play, fight, have babies,...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 1, 2015 | Graffiti, Mural, Vancouver
A masked Spock commands attention at one of many houses slated for demolition outside the King Edward Canada Line station. (Carlyn Yandle photo) The alienating effect of walking by blocks of empty homes is seen in the writing on the wall. It is there in the masked...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 24, 2015 | Appropriation, Architecture, Cultural Hub, Doilies, Doily, Graffiti, Green Space, Guerrilla Art, Mural, Political Art, Protest, Public Art, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Vancouver, Wrap I, Wrap II
One of a handful of Vancouver’s ‘country lanes’ from a 2002 pilot projects. (Photo: Ben Nelms for National Post) And yet.And yet there is nothing like an untenable situation to spark a creative response. There is evidence of it in the spaces between,...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 17, 2015 | Activism, Culture, Cycling, Environment, Health, Inspiration, Protest, Public Art, Vancouver
There is a symbiotic relationship between art and cycling. For me, I don’t get to work/play in the studio if I don’t get on my bike, and I don’t get my daily dose of hard-pumping exercise if I don’t go to the studio.My father, a career artist and devoted cyclist, has...
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