by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 19, 2016 | Art, Art Show, Artist Residency, Composition, Craft, Crafts, Creative Process, Eastend, Embroidery, Exhibit, Experimentation, Fabric, Fibre Arts, Handwork, Innovation, Installation, Landscape, Mixed Media, Needlework, Paint, Painting, Playing, Process, Quilt, Residency, Retreat, Saskatchewan, Scale, Social Engagement, Stitching, Textile, Wallace Stegner House
Day 12 painting: Embroidered details in a scene of a newly “thrashed” hay field. I’ve just returned from a month in the big country of southwest Saskatchewan: big skies, big farming operations, big empty days that were all too much at the start of my...
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 16, 2015 | Fibre Arts, Haywood Bandstand, Installation, Lighthouse, Lumiere Festival, Network, Public Art
‘Lighthouse’, commissioned by the Burrard Arts Foundation for Lumiere Festival 2015. Carlyn Yandle photo As I was wrapping bolts of fabric around the Haywood Bandstand across from English Bay last Friday, a few intrepid dog-walkers approached me, shouting...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 5, 2015 | Additive, Art, Collaboration, Draw Down, Fiber, Fibre, Fibre Arts, Knotting, Macrame, Mt. Pleasant Community Centre, Network, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Social Media, Upcycling, Vancouver, Weaving
I’m not knocking social media. Hitting ‘Like’ to one posted act of injustice after another is nothing like joining a sit-in at your MP’s office or marching in protest. But I also get that there is power in those tweets and online petitions. We...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 15, 2015 | Buttons, Discomforter, Fabric, Failure, Fiber, Fibre Arts, Qr Code, Quilt, Sewing
There is really no way to know whether a blanket covered in brightly coloured buttons will read until the very end of all the work so I wanted to build in the likelihood of failure. That’s how I came to decide on “The devil is in the details” as the...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 3, 2015 | Bull Kelp, Design, Experimentation, Fabricating, Fibre, Fibre Arts, Innovation, Maker, Making, Sculpture, Seaweed, Visual Language
There is not a coffee shop in town where two people, heads almost touching as if in shared prayer, aren’t focused on one pocket-sized screen. Sometimes one of those people is me, in answer to an artist friend’s question, What are you up to these days? Three...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 6, 2015 | Craftivism, Crochet, Doilies, Doily, Fibre Arts, Installation, Tyvek, Wrap I, Wrap II
When the white RCMP SUV was spotted cruising around the Maple Street section of the community gardens early Monday morning, it was clear that the chainsaws and earth-movers were next. Placeholders for levelled gardens: Wrap I and Wrap II, 10′ diameter each,...
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