by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 1, 2014 | Art Discourse, Blogs, Critique, Cultural Studies, Culture, Culture Jamming, Dafen Village, Environmental Art, Expression, Found Objects, Inspiration, Kyoto, Marketing, Meditative, Motivation, Photography, Process, Social Engagement, Social Media, Vancouver, Wood
Zen Garden, Buddhist Temple, Japan The first time I saw a “dry landscape” Zen garden in one of the hundreds of temples in Kyoto, my brain sort of short-circuited.This was the mid-’80s, and here was a Zen Buddhist priest meticulously raking the gravel...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 6, 2014 | Blogs, Composition, Creative Process, Critique, Design, Distraction, Distracts, Expression, Ideas, Inspiration, Motivation, Painting, Pattern, Perception, Process, Studio, Writing
Distracts #1, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 33″W x 27″H. To me, the easiest part about carving out a place in the visual arts world is writing something about it. Yet most of my artist colleagues don’t know how I make myself do it on a weekly basis. Easy....
by Carlyn Yandle | May 29, 2014 | Art Discourse, Billy Patko, Craft, Crafts, Creative Process, Crochet, Douglas-coupland, Exhibit, Found Objects, Gallery, Handwork, Hot Art Wet City, Ideas, Inspiration, Lynda Barry, Playing, Process, Project, Rachael Ashe, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Vancouver
I would rather watch the little kids in my life play than watch the best TV. But it’s tricky because they don’t like to be observed and if they feel I’m too interested, they are on to me and it all comes to a halt. I have to refrain from the urge to...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 9, 2014 | Art, Art School, Creative Process, ECUAD, Emily Carr University, Exhibit, Gallery, Granville-island, Ideas, Innovation, Inspiration, Paint, Painting, Playing, Vancouver, Visual Field
The mammoth art museum experience is like an all-inclusive resort for the mind: there’s so much coming at you the brain binges ’til it can’t party anymore. Unless you’re an art history major, what’s hanging on those soaring walls and...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 25, 2014 | Beauty, Big Data, Color, Colour, Composition, Creative Process, Data-graphic, Distracts, Inspiration, Painting, Pattern, Perception, Process, Visual Field
With the same anticipation as a root canal I plopped down in a chair at the accountant’s office. Then gasped and pointed, then tried not to point at the adjacent bookcase stuffed with client files. The accountant flipped through my own paperwork. I flipped out...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 17, 2014 | Art, Art Discourse, Collage, Dallas-duobaitis, Data-graphic, Distraction, ECUAD, Exhibit, Gallery, Globalization, Innovation, Inspiration, Monique Motut-Firth, Sculpture, Technology, Vancouver, Visual Field
Detail from Emily Carr Masters student Duobaitis’ ink on board work, ‘(re) formatting’, 2014. How we’re feeling about our place in an uncertain world is evident on art school walls.This is where the next generation of emerging artists grapples...
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