by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 20, 2013 | Collaboration, Color, Colour, Creative Process, Expression, Maker, Paint, Painting, Pattern, Perception, Playing, Process
What movie first rocked your world?, someone asked during a recent dinner with friends. Easy: 2001: A Space Odyssey, said one. Looking for Mr. Goodbar, said another, clearly remembering her fear.Mine was The Wizard of Oz. Never mind the munchkins and the flying...
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 13, 2013 | Architecture, Art, Collaboration, Dance, Innovation, Installation, New Forms Festival, Perception, Performance, Public Art, Sculpture, Street Art, Vancouver, Visual Field
You can thank Europeans’ dwindling Christian faith for a sensory bombardment that’s taking over Europe. The poor attendance at all the churches and cathedrals has been a boon to a new totally immersive art-architecture experience of sound and image,...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jul 12, 2013 | Architecture, Climate Change, Collaboration, Creative Process, Innovation, Inspiration, Invention, Maquette, Motivation, Process, Public Art, Rhonda Weppler, Trevor Mahovsky, Vancouver
Pretty, and pretty alarming stripes show future water levels. All the recent natural and unnatural disasters in this country — city-paralyzing changing-climate-induced floods in Calgary and then Toronto, an oil-tanker train disaster that derailed an entire...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 4, 2013 | Cirque Du Soleil, Collaboration, Dance, Inspiration, Pattern, Performance, Psychedelic, Vancouver
I got the gift of a visual feast for Christmas: a date to see some performance-art mastery by Cirque du Soleil. And it was no less a sensory experience than the first show I saw when Alegria debuted in Vancouver in ’03.Amaluna also has an operatic storyline but...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jul 18, 2012 | Additive, Art, Assemblage, Collaboration, Collage, Failure, Found Objects, Painting, Pattern, Process, Project
You’d think the biggest challenge of artists is deciding what to make. But every artist I know is challenged by deciding what not to make. There are so many competing pursuits that tend to be part of the lives of creative types: gardening, music, cooking,...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 26, 2012 | Art, Collaboration, Craft, Crafts, Fabric, Fiber, Fibre, Found Objects, Handwork, Installation, Knotting, Macrame, Maker, Net, Network, Process, Project, Public Art, Sculpture, Textile
Artist friend and Maker Faire participant Rachael Ashe In his speech to graduates of Toronto’s York University this month, one of my favourite journalists, CBC Radio’s Michael Enright, advised the next working generation to “learn how to fix something. Or make...
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