by Carlyn Yandle | Feb 28, 2017 | Abstract Painting, Architecture, Collage, Color, Colour, Composition, Experimentation, Found Objects, Graffiti, Guanajuato, Images, Instagram, Mixed Media, Paint, Painting, Perception, Photography, Social History, Vancouver, Visual Field
It feels like the Internet has killed the fun of taking snapshots of beautiful cities and people. So many times over the last four months in Mexico I’ve raised my camera (phone) to capture an impressive bronze sculpture or some baroque church facade then...
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 29, 2015 | AgentC Gallery, Exhibition, Found Objects, Maker, Sculpture, Surrey, Vancouver
It is excruciating to junk a piece of, well, in this case, junk. But it has to be done. Such is the reality of the Vancouver maker who likes to work large but lives in a small space. So I sacrifice Charm Bracelet, following the end of its one and only showing at the...
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 19, 2015 | Assemblage, Creative Process, Found Objects, Playing, Sculpture, Toybits, Upcycling
Just for the record, my Toybits were created far, far before Mad Max: Fury Road hit the theatres — although the resemblance of those Metallica-esque assault vehicles to my small sculptures is uncanny. For some inexplicable reason (even to myself) I have been...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 27, 2015 | Assemblage, Clay Yandle, Collaboration, Creative Process, Design, Display, Eggbeater Creative, Experimentation, Form, Found Objects, Ideas, Inspiration, Marketing, Martha Rosler, Painting, Recycle, Sculpture, Semiotics, Surrealism, Typography, Unfixtures, Upcycling
“Unfixtures”: Found lamp bases, utensils, gesso. I liked the idea of messing with the overlooked and the banal to open up possible new understandings about preconceived notions.There was something delicious about a collection of attractive objects —...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 13, 2015 | #overthinking, Additive, Aesthetics, Architecture, Assemblage, Building, Composition, Construction, Creative Process, Design, Experimentation, Failure, Found Objects, Inspiration, Making, Playing, Process, Sculpture, Toybits, Upcycling
Toybits (green) – made from broken toys (Carlyn Yandle photo) This may be the third or fourth column/post I’ve written that could come under the headline, ‘Overthinking will be the death of me.’ There is definitely a book in there somewhere...
by Carlyn Yandle | 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...
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