by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 9, 2013 | Art, Art School, Artist Statement, Craft, Crafts, Crochet, Doilies, Doily, ECUAD, Fabric, Fabricating, Fiber, Fibre, Flo, Found Objects, Fractal, Gallery, Handwork, Installation, Liz Magor, Maker, Net, Painting, Ravages, Scale, Sculpture, Textile, Use Object, Wrap I, Wrap II
Wrap (I), polyethylene fibre, 96″ diameter In my fourth-year sculpture class venerable artist and (now newly-retired) Emily Carr instructor Liz Magor took one look at my first installation of a kazillion doilies stretched across the cavernous classroom and said,...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 1, 2013 | Environmental Art, Fabricating, Fiber, Fibre, Garden, Handwork, Innovation, Installation, Knotting, Maker, Nature, Process, Public Art, Raw Materials, Sculpture, Sharon Kallis, Social Engagement, Weaving
I so adore this old World War I royalty-free poster created for the Canada Food Board that I post it in my kitchen every year during the putting-food-by months, already underway.I love the displayed array of fresh produce that would never be pushed by a private...
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 1, 2013 | Art, Assemblage, Color, Conceptual Art, Creative Process, Culture, Fabricating, Found Objects, Innovation, Inspiration, Installation, Process, Upcycling, Use Object, Use Objects
My not-quite-resolved plastic quilty test. I’ve been left high and dry, marooned by a foul waste stream — a particular category of non-recycled stuff that ends up in Vancouver’s landfill. This category consists of many boxes of rigid-plastic toy bits that my nephews...
by Carlyn Yandle | Feb 1, 2013 | Art, Assemblage, Creative Process, Design, Eastside Culture Crawl, Fabricating, Found Objects, Handwork, Ideas, Industrial Design, Innovation, Inspiration, Maker, Process, Project
My mother might remember this: as a kid, I once declared that I could handle a stint in jail, because I would spend the time dressing up the place by making decorations out of any old bits and pieces. Not a huge leap, as making something out of nothing was already my...
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