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...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 11, 2013 | Creative Process, Lynda Barry, Playing, Poodle, Writing
Everything’s coming up poodles. A few months ago I was trying to dog a persistent human-sized crocheted poodle toilet-paper-roll cover. Then it was the whole public art controversy surrounding the ‘poodle on a pole.’ Then today, as I was researching...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 5, 2013 | Art Discourse, Creative Process, Crochet, Design, Doily, Fabricating, Found Objects, Inspiration, Installation, Maker, Metalworker, Production, Sculpture, Vancouver
We are to understand that being distracted is bad, and being focused is good. Being focused will get the job done while being in the moment is not productive — productivity being the cornerstone of our prevailing Protestant work ethic.I’m aware that it is...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 29, 2013 | Collage, Creative Process, Fiber, Ideas, Inspiration, Newspapers, Research
This week’s clippings, destined for my over-stuffed sketchbook. I’m addicted to Google Images and I’m not happy about it. For the last several decades, most of my ideas have come from markings on wood pulp, specifically newspapers. And even though it’s now...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 22, 2013 | Art Discourse, Art History, Art School, Artist Statement, Creative Process, Crochet, Cultural Studies, Doilies, Doily, Ideas, Joseph Beuys, Knotting, Maker, Performance, Performance Art, Process, Project, Social History
My biggest obstacle is over-thinking — not to be confused with big thinking. Over-thinking is my umbrella term for all the second-guessing, the predicting, the analyzing and the re-thinking that can turn my mind into a maelstrom. It’s unproductive and it’s...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 15, 2013 | Aesthetics, Art Discourse, Creative Process, Critique, Installation, Production, Public Art, Sculpture, Vancouver
A few weeks back, one of the local dailies ran a staff photo of a grumpy-looking woman wearing a hand-drawn sign around her neck that read: “Mount Pleasant needs a pool not a poodle on a pole.” God, I miss the newsroom sometimes. When that kind of photo lands on your...
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