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 in​Flat 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 | 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 | Nov 17, 2017 | Abstract Painting, Aesthetics, Appropriation, Architecture, Beauty, Color, Colour, Domestic Interventions, Eggbeater Creative, Embroidery, Fabric, Garment, Maya, Needlework, Sewing, Textile
A wall of a Peruvian restaurant in Merida, Mexico is devoted to customers’ reviews written on ribbons. Carlyn Yandle photo Modern science calls it bunk but I am fully on board with chromotherapy, an alternative medicine branded by the labcoats as a...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 13, 2015 | #overthinking, Additive, Aesthetics, Architecture, Assemblage, Building, Composition, Construction, Creative Process, Design, Experimentation, Failure, Found Objects, Inspiration, Making, Playing, Process, Sculpture, Toybits, Upcycling
Toybits (green) – made from broken toys (Carlyn Yandle photo) This may be the third or fourth column/post I’ve written that could come under the headline, ‘Overthinking will be the death of me.’ There is definitely a book in there somewhere...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 2, 2015 | Aesthetics, Bull Kelp, Construction, Craft, Creative Process, Deep Craft, Failure, Foraging, Ideas, Industrial Design, Meditative, Nature, Sculpture, Seaweed
A Christmas Day king tide served up some thick snarls of bull kelp and I seized on an idea. Kelp Skein, in progress. (Carlyn Yandle photo) Actually, I had no particular idea in mind; only quite a bit of wonder at the quantity of the stuff. After dragging great hunks...
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 19, 2014 | Aesthetics, Art, Art School, Artist, Climate Change, Collaboration, Craftsmanship, Design, Form, Handwork, Industrial Design, Maker, Marketing, Production, Sculpture, Technology, Use Object
Dear Santa,I know I haven’t written since I was a kid, and when it comes to wants, I’m pretty much good. Unlike a lot of my neighbours who rent homes that are slated for demolition in the coming year or who have to hit the food bank at the end of every...
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