by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 18, 2025 | Abstract Painting, Carlyn Yandle, Crochet, Embroidery, Entanglements, Fiber Artist, Fibre, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Hand Stitching, Handmaking, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Joyfulmakinginperiloustimes, LA Fires, Mapping, Material Exploration, Mixed Media, Mushroom, Mycelium, Nature, Painting, Pattern, Renewal, Repairing Is Caring, Spore, Vancouver
Mushrooms and more for troubled times When you spend a good portion of your winter cowering from the cold and the rain, it’s hard to fathom the fiery desert winds that are obliterating entire neighbourhoods just a three-hour flight south. In the near-real-time images...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 10, 2025 | Art Quilt, Collaboration, Experimentation, Fabric, Fiber Artist, Fibre Arts, Form And Function, Found Materials, Geometric Art, Hand Stitching, Handmade, Handmaking, Improvisation, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Joyfulmakinginperiloustimes, Meditative, Quilt, Quilting, Sashiko, Textile Art, Use Object, Vancouver
Handmade quilts of found fabrics layer up multiple meanings The squirrels that inhabit my head have been threatening to start a roller derby so I’ve shut it all down by doing something constructive: I’m literally wrapping myself up in my ongoing Perfectly...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 4, 2025 | Abstract Painting, Acrylic, Carlyn Yandle, Creative Process, Distraction, Distracts, Fiber Artist, Geometric Art, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Joyfulmakinginperiloustimes, Painting, Pattern, Personalispolitical, Political Art, Process, Quilt Painting, Trump, Vancouver
Depicting a distracted mind might not be helping Disrupting the grid, upending predictable patterns. Acrylic on canvas, sewing pins, 24” x 24” (Carlyn Yandle) If the person I share the bed with is to be believed, this morning (as of this writing) I announced in my...
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 14, 2024 | Cartoon, Children, Collaboration, Conceptual Craft, Craft, Craftivism, Creative Process, Embroidery, Hand Stitching, Inspiration, Kids Art, Monster, Narrative, Needlework, Patriarchy, Personalispolitical, Process
I’m betting its bite will be worse than its bark Lately I’ve been asking anyone I come across: Is it just me or are we all sort of in a calm-before-the-storm, high-alert mode? So far, the score is 100-per-cent ‘Yes.’ Although in retrospect those affirmatives...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 25, 2024 | Activism, Anxiety, Art Activism, Bob Krieger, Cartoon, Craftivism, Creative Process, Embroidery, Feminisim, Feminist Art, Fiber Arts, Grief, Hand Stitching, Mental Health, Political Art, Political Satire, Pussy Hat, Resistance, Social Art, Trump, Women's March
From rolling your eyes to sinking in sawdustLike a dream it was: A half-a-million-strong pink procession on Washington, a sea of singing, shouting, laughing people, surging forward in the shared pursuit of basic human rights, in their hometowns and around the world....
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