by Carlyn Yandle | May 30, 2012 | Additive, Beauty, Design, Fiber, Fibre, Handwork, Ideas, Industrial Design, Innovation, Inspiration, Nature, Process, Production, Project, Quilt
Woven corners are a sign of a fine cedar-shingle job. It’s probably more Little House on the Prairie than the slightly unsettling modern survivalist culture that has me generally pre-occupied with designs for off-the-grid living, untethered to hydro heating and...
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 | Feb 28, 2012 | Fiber, Fibre, Garment, Knitting, Logo Sweater, Use Object, Weaving
The art world doesn’t have much use for “use objects” as art objects. There’s really nothing valuable about them beyond their use value. And the fact that they’re laboriously handmade doesn’t cut it either, I realized several years...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 30, 2012 | Fiber, Fibre, Industry, Inspiration, Production, Sculpture
Reason #372 why it’s so great to be in a shared studio: inspiration from your fellow artists. Like in the candy-store story shared by one studio-mate.In the old days I would research and cite the original source of the story but pfffffft! I’m an artist...
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 28, 2011 | Collaboration, Fiber, Network, Process, Project, Public Art
It’s alive — and threatening to take over. Since one of my studio-mates and I started our own Social Network (working title) a couple of months back the thing has become The Thing that won’t be ignored. It hangs heavily on a few ceiling hooks, on the verge...
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