by Carlyn Yandle | Feb 27, 2015 | Art Show, Assemblage, Challenge, Collaboration, Collage, Composition, Creative Process, Domestic, Domestic Interventions, Experimentation, Facebook, Failure, Found Objects, Ideas, Inspiration, Making, Monte Clark, Omer Arbel, Paper, Pattern, Toybits
Vancouver-based creative force Omer Arbel and Monte Clark teamed up to embrace the power of happy accidents (Carlyn Yandle photo) Last week Monte Clark gave four of us some insight into how an experiment by Omer Arbel went awry and ended up as a dazzling installation...
by Carlyn Yandle | Feb 20, 2015 | Art, Challenge, Collage, Connie Sabo, Creative Process, Experimentation, Failure, Found Objects, Glue, Ideas, Innovation, Paper, Playing, Recycle, Social Media, Upcycling
Vancouver artist Connie Sabo threw the current Facebook challenge (three artworks a day for five days) to me this week. I’m taking on the challenge for the chance to create three art experimentations per day, as opposed to sharing three artworks on each of those...
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 | Dec 12, 2014 | Art, Artist, Caroline Eriksson, Ceca Georgieva, Christmas, Color, Colour, Craft, Craftsmanship, Creative Process, Culture, DSquared2, Emily Blincoe, Gingerbread, Ideas, Maker, Making, Meditative, Performance Art, Sculpture
It’s not too late to say, Nay! I will not be coerced into this coming two-week commercial frenzy. I will steer my little ship into calmer waters! Instead of joining the throngs of harried consumers grabbing up plastic chocolate-pooping reindeer and ironic...
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 5, 2014 | Art Show, Craft, Craftsmanship, Creative Process, Crochet, Cultural Hub, Culture, Dear Human, Design, Exhibit, Fabricating, Festival, Fiber, Fibre Arts, Fuzzy Logic, Gallery, Handwork, Ideas, Industrial Design, Innovation, Inspiration, Installation, Knitting, Lecture, Maker, Openings, Playing, Process, Project, Rachael Ashe, Spore, TO DO, Toronto Design Offsite, Vancouver
It’s getting close to a decade since I packed it all in: my needles and wool, my sewing machine and fabrics, my mid-level-management career. There was more to explore.I’ve been mixing it up with a wide range of materials (and makers) ever since but even...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 7, 2014 | Art Discourse, Carlyn Yandle, Collaboration, Craft, Creative Process, Doilies, Doily, Fibre Arts, Lecture, Pecha Kucha, Pechakucha, Port Coquitlam, Terry Fox Theatre, Textile
In the next month you’re likely going to end up stuck at some fatuous seasonal gathering, wondering how soon you can bolt without appearing rude so you can go home and change into your antisocial cozy pants.This is why I like PechaKuchas, lectures delivered in...
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