by Carlyn Yandle | Jul 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
Utopic dream work is now an unwieldy massAs soon as my coffee arrived in bed early Friday morning (don’t hate me) I jumped on Reddit to try to find news of the latest cyber snafu, because my regular first source of news was offline.I found this, best read in Laurie...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jul 14, 2024 | Activism, Aesthetics, Aging, Art Discourse, Art Show, Beauty, Carlyn Yandle, Creative Process, Critique, Dissent, Domestic, Embroidery, Fabric, Fiber, Fiber Artist, Fibre Arts, Flow, Found Materials, Fuckwit, Garment, Hand Stitching, Handmade, Handmaking, Ideas, Inspiration, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Knotting, Macrame, Material Exploration, Motivation, Needlework, Painting, Scaffolds, Unbridled, Wall Hanging, Wearable Art
When I first started out as a suburban-newspaper reporter I had a single original artwork tacked to the wall in my basement suite. It was a life-sized acrylic-on-paper, a nude holding her maybe-pregnant belly against a landscape of spewing factories and...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jul 7, 2024 | @tinypricksproject, Activism, Art Discourse, Carlyn Yandle, Crochet, Current Conditions, Discomforter, Embroidery, Fiber Artist, Fibre Arts, Hand Stitching, Handmaking, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Knitting, Protest, Protest Art, Pussy-hat, Slow Craft, Subversive Stitch, Tiny Pricks Project, Trump
The American penchant for patriotic treats is impressive, from jelly shots to meat trays. (Instagram collage) We all sort of forgot about celebrating Canada Day last weekend, up north, on a farm. No fireworks, no flags, no impressive array of themed party foods in the...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
San Francisco Pride float, 2022 (Carlyn Yandle photo) Two years ago to the day of this writing, my sweetie and I arrived in downtown San Francisco the day before the Pride parade and the day after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade.By the time the Dykes...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 20, 2024 | Abstraction, Arcade Fire, Charley Yandle, Creative Process, David Weir, Digital Art, Dystopia, Immersive Art, Installation, Installation Art, Obtrusive Thoughts, Performance, Reflection, Reflektor, Teamlab
I have my share of obtrusive thoughts but this week it’s an ear-worm: Arcade Fire’s “Reflektor.”It jumped into my head while on a brilliant morning bike ride this week, after passing someone walking while talking into her phone raised in that most...
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