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Wild, brilliant colour is rocking my concrete-grey foundations

by | Nov 17, 2017 | Abstract Painting, Aesthetics, Appropriation, Architecture, Beauty, Color, Colour, Domestic Interventions, Eggbeater Creative, Embroidery, Fabric, Garment, Maya, Needlework, Sewing, Textile

A wall of a Peruvian restaurant in Merida, Mexico is devoted to customers’ reviews written on ribbons. Carlyn Yandle photo Modern science calls it bunk but I am fully on board with chromotherapy, an alternative medicine branded by the labcoats as a...

Exhibit of a great mistake was just the push I needed

by | 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...

Feeling the squeeze all part of the practice

by | Oct 17, 2014 | Art Show, Body Of Work, Carlyn Yandle, Cityspace Gallery, Collaboration, Collage, Domestic, Domestic Interventions, Exhibit, Fibre, Fibre Arts, Gallery, Installation, Janet Wang, Monique Motut-Firth, North Vancouver, Painting, Sculpture

Janet Wang plays with the Madonna and Child mainstay. I spent most of the day yesterday sitting with a very close friend in a hospital bed, waiting for the surgeon to slice into her gut and remove a large cyst and maybe an ovary or two. Or maybe all her lady parts....