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 | May 26, 2018 | Art, Challenge, Composition, Craft, Creative Process, Design, Domestic, Fabric, Failure, Fiber, Fibre, Fibre Arts, Film, Found Materials, Found Objects, Garment, Innovation, Inspiration, Making, Quilt, Quilting, Recycle, Sewing, Upcycling, Use Object, Use Objects, Wool
Clockwise from top left: Great-Grandfather Quilt; Dad’s Throw; Tie Cushion. (Carlyn Yandle photos) Materialistic. People say it like it’s a bad thing.But there’s not necessarily anything selfish or hoardy or wasteful about feeling deeply connected to...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 29, 2017 | Art, Color, Craft, Creative Process, Design, Doilies, Dyeing, Experimentation, Fabric, Found Objects, Innovation, Quilt, Quilting, Sewing, Stitching, Work Wraps
“Your hair seems blue,” a friend noted over dinner.It really is. I’ve joined the blue-rinse gang — emphasis on the blue. Denim blue is an unnatural hair hue that seems only natural now that I’m surrounded by heaps of old jeans and altering all those tones of...
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 10, 2016 | Architecture, City Planning, Culture, Design, Environment, Festival, Social Engagement, Street Art, Urban Design, Vancouver
The steps of the Teatro Juarez transform by day and night for the benefit of the walking public. (Carlyn Yandle photo) A month after I landed in Guanajuato, Mexico it finally dawned on me: there are no traffic lights in this bustling city. You’d think that would...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 3, 2015 | Bull Kelp, Design, Experimentation, Fabricating, Fibre, Fibre Arts, Innovation, Maker, Making, Sculpture, Seaweed, Visual Language
There is not a coffee shop in town where two people, heads almost touching as if in shared prayer, aren’t focused on one pocket-sized screen. Sometimes one of those people is me, in answer to an artist friend’s question, What are you up to these days? Three...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 27, 2015 | Assemblage, Clay Yandle, Collaboration, Creative Process, Design, Display, Eggbeater Creative, Experimentation, Form, Found Objects, Ideas, Inspiration, Marketing, Martha Rosler, Painting, Recycle, Sculpture, Semiotics, Surrealism, Typography, Unfixtures, Upcycling
“Unfixtures”: Found lamp bases, utensils, gesso. I liked the idea of messing with the overlooked and the banal to open up possible new understandings about preconceived notions.There was something delicious about a collection of attractive objects —...
Recent Comments