by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 22, 2024 | Arts And Crafts, Decorations, Halloween, Handmade, Homemade, Seasonal Decor, Upcycling
There’s still time to re-think toxic and tasteless Halloween decorI am harnessing both my irrational and quite-reasonable fears of two looming nail-biter elections — one provincial within days and that bigger scary one with the global impact — and funnelling...
by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 12, 2024 | Art Activism, Art Discourse, Arts And Crafts, Community Building, Coronavirus, Covid, Fiber Artist, Fibre, Fibre Arts, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Joyfulmakinginperiloustimes, Masks, Pandemic, Sewing, Social Distancing, Social Distancing Hat, Social Engagement, Socialart, Subversive Stitch, Textile Art, Vancouver
Masks keep our germs to ourselves but I don’t have to like themPeople! Am I going to have to bring out my Social Distancing Hat again? Everyone I know is either in the grips of one plague or another or sharing stories about a friend with Long Covid or flu or...
by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 2, 2024 | Abject, Anxiety, Architecture, Artifact, Assemblage, Binding, Braiding, Dystopia, Found Materials, Handmaking, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Joyfulmakinginperiloustimes, Material Exploration, Meditation, Scaffolds I, Seismic Rug
Hand-makers will be the change when or if ‘The Big One’ hitsOf all the things I fret over — a neighbourhood arsonist, identity theft, Trump burning it all down, an all-out war in the Middle East — ‘earthquake’ is not one of them. But it may seem like I’m...
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 30, 2024 | Abstract Painting, Aesthetics, Art Discourse, Carlyn Yandle, Conceptual Craft, Distraction, Embroidery, Exploration, Fiber Arts, Hand Stitching, Intrusive Thoughts, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Material Exploration, Meditative, Painting
Dropping out is easy. This art practice is about tuning inFlat on my back in the chair last week, the dentist had just plunged the second needle into my eroded molar area and her assistant was now affixing the rubber dam. This is when my go-to flight response kicked...
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 21, 2024 | Community Building, Gardening, Joyfulmakinginperiloustimes, Kintsugi, MakingIsConnecting, Mending, Perfectionism, Re-use, Repairing Is Caring, RepairingIsCaring, Sewing, SharingIsCaring, Upcycling, Use Object, Wabi-sabi, Zero Waste Art
Making things better requires thinking creatively, not throwing it all awayCan you do me a favour, a neighbour-friend asked, and I knew his sweet, destructive dog had done it again.The pup, bred to herd, over large tracts of land, has made uneven progress adjusting to...
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