by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 20, 2024 | Abstraction, Arcade Fire, Charley Yandle, Creative Process, David Weir, Digital Art, Dystopia, Immersive Art, Installation, Installation Art, Obtrusive Thoughts, Performance, Reflection, Reflektor, Teamlab
I have my share of obtrusive thoughts but this week it’s an ear-worm: Arcade Fire’s “Reflektor.”It jumped into my head while on a brilliant morning bike ride this week, after passing someone walking while talking into her phone raised in that most...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 2, 2024 | Abstract Painting, Anxiety, Art Discourse, Art Quilt, Carlyn Yandle, Circular Thinking, Color, Colour, Conceptual Craft, Creative Process, Distraction, Experimentation, Exploration, Fabric, Fiber Artist, Fiber Arts, Flow, Geometric Art, Hand Stitching, Hybrid Thinking, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Mathematics, Needlework, Painting, Perception, Playing, Quilt, Quilt Block, Visual Field
I opened up my studio yesterday to the public to get some general feedback on a new series of paintings. Because even though I’m compelled to keep working on it and even though I’m enjoying a growing proficiency in this mash-up of stitching and painting I’m having...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 13, 2022 | Anxiety, Art Quilt, Boro, Carlyn Yandle, Coronavirus, Cover, Creative Process, Current Conditions, Denim, Embroidery, Fiber, Fiber Artist, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Hand-stitching, Handmaking, Hashtags, Healing, Jeans, Meditative, Pandemic, Quilt, Quilting, Sashiko, Social Engagement, Stitching, Text, Textile, Vancouver
“The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.” — Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance When my nerves are frayed and it feels like the social fabric is unravelling I feel...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 21, 2021 | Activism, Art Discourse, Art School, Art Show, Artist Statement, Braided Rug, Braiding, Collaboration, Community, Conceptual Art, Conceptual Craft, Construction, Craftivism, Craftsmanship, Creative Process, Critique, Crochet, Denim, Domestic, ECUAD, Emily Carr University, Exhibit, Exhibition, Experimentation, Exploration, Fabric, Fiber, Fiber Artist, Film, Found Materials, Found Objects, Free Store, Handmaking, Handwork, Hearth, Homelessness, Installation, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, MFA, Pattern, Project, Quilt, Quilt Block, Research, Resurge, Scaffolds, Scraps, Slow Craft, Soft Sculpture, Tapestry, Trash Art, Tyvek, Video, Video Tour, Zero-waste Art
Click HERE for a 10-minute journey through the methods and motivations behind this MFA thesis. (Film made by Ana Valine, Rodeo Queen Pictures, August 2020)
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 6, 2019 | Art School, Braided Rug, Carlyn Yandle, Conceptual Craft, Crafts, Creative Process, Critique, Deep Craft, Denim, Design, Domestic, Fiber, Fiber Artist, Fiber Arts, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Handmaking, Jeans, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Labor, Labour, Macrame, Resurge, Slow Craft, Textile, Upcycling, Vancouver, Visual Language, Weaving
In the final critique of my final work in this second-to-final semester of graduate studies, I could see that there was going to be trouble. From the start, there was the trouble of actually getting a full view of this sprawling, chaotic, twisted mass of...
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 22, 2019 | Craft, Creative Process, Crochet, ECUAD, ECUAD MFA, Emily Carr University, Exploration, Fabricating, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Hybrid Thinking, LOoW, Material Exploration, Mathematics, MFA, Origami, Paper Sculpture, Process, Smocking, Space Craft, Tyvek
Material research using found spun polyester fibre, for an artwork resulting from a year’s conversation with scientists and scholars. (Carlyn Yandle photos) About a decade ago I stumbled across Latvian-American mathematician Daina Taimina’s curious crochet...
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