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A Season of snarls

A Season of snarls

by | Jul 11, 2014 | Assemblage, Color, Colour, Construction, Crafts, Creative Process, Design, Fiber, Fibre, Found Objects, Industry, Installation, Knotting, Macrame, Raw Materials, Sculpture, Technology, Textile, Upcycling

Macrame-ing cable wire. Carlyn Yandle photo A big shout-out to the recycling staffer at my local Return-It depot who painstakingly went through a bin full of snarls of computer cables to select the ones with the most colourful clusters of wire for me.I find it tough...
deadhead alive with ideas of our watery past, uncertain future

deadhead alive with ideas of our watery past, uncertain future

by | Jun 27, 2014 | Building, Construction, Design, Fabricating, Found Objects, Industrial Design, Innovation, Installation, Maker, Public Art, Upcycling, Wood

Like moths to a light, paddleboarders hover around Deadhead. (Carlyn Yandle photo) On one rambling two-hour bike tour of False Creek Sunday, a friend and I cruised by the Dragonboat festival, the jazz festival and the food truck festival. Granville Island was foody...
Words are not enough to capture the seduction of distraction

Words are not enough to capture the seduction of distraction

by | Jun 6, 2014 | Blogs, Composition, Creative Process, Critique, Design, Distraction, Distracts, Expression, Ideas, Inspiration, Motivation, Painting, Pattern, Perception, Process, Studio, Writing

Distracts #1, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 33″W x 27″H. To me, the easiest part about carving out a place in the visual arts world is writing something about it. Yet most of my artist colleagues don’t know how I make myself do it on a weekly basis. Easy....
QR button blanket: Epic fail or a larger reading?

QR button blanket: Epic fail or a larger reading?

by | Mar 21, 2014 | Additive, Beauty, Buttons, Color, Colour, Composition, Craft, Craftsmanship, Creative Process, Critique, Design, Distraction, Fabric, Fabricating, Failure, Fiber, Fibre, Found Objects, Handwork, Ideas, Innovation, Motivation, Pattern, Perception, Performance Art, Polly-apfelbaum, Process, Production, Project, Qr Code, Quilt, Textile, Upcycling, Use Object, Use Objects, Visual Field

After three months of sewing one donated button after another into a giant QR code, the big moment arrived this week: time to stand back and scan that baby with a reader app, translating this quilt-thing to read, “The devil is in the details.”Except it...