by Carlyn Yandle | May 22, 2015 | Building, Cob, Cob Oven, Collaboration, Construction, Handwork, Ideas, Industrial Design, Mud Girls, Nature, Raw Materials, Social Engagement, Vancouver
Where it all began: The Mud Girls retreat that sowed the seed for new/old building modes. Playing with mainly found materials, and whenever possible with other people, offers me the chance to learn about properties and potential of those throw-away materials as well...
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 | Aug 29, 2014 | Aluminum, Art, City As Site, Cluster, Commission, Construction, Creative Process, Exhibit, Gallery, Innovation, Inspiration, Installation, Project, Public Art, Rachel Lafo, Richmond Art Gallery, Sculpture, Social Engagement
It’s one thing to dream up an idea for the back end of the elevated Canada Line track and quite another to see that dream come together in a mammoth aluminum sculpture. Metal fabrication at the Select Steel shop, Delta. Carlyn Yandle photo So when I got my first...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 14, 2014 | Architecture, Building, Construction, Creative Process, Design, Industrial Design, Innovation, Invention, Street Art
Carlyn Yandle photo We were a bit of a spectacle, using survivalist technology outside our tent wedged between the humming, air-conditioned RVs, but we were aching to use our car-camping trip to finally test the BioLite.And it was good. (See 26-second YouTube review,...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jul 11, 2014 | Assemblage, Color, Colour, Construction, Crafts, Creative Process, Design, Fiber, Fibre, Found Objects, Industry, Installation, Knotting, Macrame, Raw Materials, Sculpture, Technology, Textile, Upcycling
Macrame-ing cable wire. Carlyn Yandle photo A big shout-out to the recycling staffer at my local Return-It depot who painstakingly went through a bin full of snarls of computer cables to select the ones with the most colourful clusters of wire for me.I find it tough...
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