by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 20, 2013 | Architecture, Assemblage, Craft, Crafts, Creative Process, Crochet, Design, Fabricating, Handwork, Ideas, Innovation, Inspiration, Playing, Process, Research, Scale, Upcycling, Wool
The Crassmas season is one big distraction to me. But once I remind myself that a gift does not have to be a solution to someone’s problem but a simple, seasonal gesture, I embrace the chance to make, and make it merry.The place is a happy mess. Wool strands are...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 29, 2013 | Buttons, Collage, Composition, Craft, Crafts, Creative Process, Discomforter, Fabric, Fabricating, Failure, Fiber, Fibre, Found Objects, Handwork, Project, Qr Code, Quilt, Textile, Upcycling
I’m posting this picture because if I don’t do it now I might cram this doomed project into a green garbage bag and stuff it where the sun don’t shine: in deep storage. I’ve seen through some fraught, laborious projects in my time but I may...
by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 11, 2013 | Art, Art Discourse, Assemblage, Color, Colour, Composition, Conceptual Art, Craft, Fabric, Fiber, Fibre, Found Objects, Handwork, Installation, Kimsooja, Openings, Painting, Pattern, Performance Art, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Social History, Textile, Vancouver
Kimsooja with curator Daina Augaitis Internationally renowned artist Kimsooja was verklempt at the opening reception for her show, Unfolding, at the Vancouver Art Gallery Thursday. Her audience would soon feel that emotion unfolding as the soft-spoken artist led a...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 16, 2013 | Additive, Art, Color, Colour, Composition, Craft, Creative Process, Design, Fabric, Fiber, Graffiti, Inspiration, Installation, Painting, Parkade Quilt, Public Art, Quilt, Street Art, Textile, Visual Field
This is my new favourite colour box, a delicious array of cans of Montana spraypaint. All packed up to take to my largest quilt project to date.Now I finally get my chance to do what I’ve been dreaming of for years: blanketing a big, blank white concrete wall...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 9, 2013 | Art, Art School, Artist Statement, Craft, Crafts, Crochet, Doilies, Doily, ECUAD, Fabric, Fabricating, Fiber, Fibre, Flo, Found Objects, Fractal, Gallery, Handwork, Installation, Liz Magor, Maker, Net, Painting, Ravages, Scale, Sculpture, Textile, Use Object, Wrap I, Wrap II
Wrap (I), polyethylene fibre, 96″ diameter In my fourth-year sculpture class venerable artist and (now newly-retired) Emily Carr instructor Liz Magor took one look at my first installation of a kazillion doilies stretched across the cavernous classroom and said,...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 2, 2013 | Craft, Crafts, Creative Process, Doilies, Doily, Fiber Arts, Handwork, Pattern, Process, Tyvek, Wrap I, Wrap II
After a long and often painful labour, I’m happy to introduce…the twins!I’m not sure why I plumped up the two eight-foot-wide doilies, freshly completed today, for their first picture. It might have something to do with this morning’s mammogram.‘Why’ is always a scary...
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