by Carlyn Yandle | May 31, 2013 | Crochet, Doilies, Doily, Gallery, Innovation, Inspiration, Installation, Public Art, Sculpture, Street Art, Use Object
Sanitary Doily, a finalist in the City’s sewer-cover competition. I’m deluded enough to believe I can survive on an art practice in Vancouver but I am under no illusion that my Sanitary Doily will be selected to grace the city’s sanitary sewer covers...
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 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 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 25, 2012 | Doilies, Doily, Fabric, Failure, Fiber, Fibre, Installation, Macrame, Process, Sculpture
Visual artists talk a lot about the importance of happy accidents. That’s when good things come out of experimentation. It’s very tough to accept the less-happy accidents as part of the process, but I find that time heals all ego wounds and I’m willing to...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 29, 2011 | Art, Doily, Fractal, Process, Psychedelic, Writing
I don’t know what to think about this gravitational pull into psychedelic art and my obsession with the humble, throwaway doily. But it’s better that way.Better to learn through the making. It’s taken four years of full-time art school to get past my past way of...
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