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...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 25, 2013 | Creative Process, Ideas, Inspiration, Pattern, Project
This would be the sequel to the New Year’s resolution post a couple of weeks back, in which I vowed to part ways with years of art projects from past classes and phases, and future artworks that just are not going to happen. I used to help people shed their clutter...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 4, 2013 | Cirque Du Soleil, Collaboration, Dance, Inspiration, Pattern, Performance, Psychedelic, Vancouver
I got the gift of a visual feast for Christmas: a date to see some performance-art mastery by Cirque du Soleil. And it was no less a sensory experience than the first show I saw when Alegria debuted in Vancouver in ’03.Amaluna also has an operatic storyline but...
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 28, 2012 | Art, Gallery, Inspiration, Painting, Vancouver
Mukai has been quietly working and reworking her paintings and drawings for 30 years. Painting feels a lot like grasping for words to me. There’s general comprehension there, thanks to some study, but I don’t have enough command of my own visual language to express...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 23, 2012 | Design, Eastside Culture Crawl, Handwork, Industrial Design, Innovation, Inspiration, Maker, Process, Sculpture, Use Object
A friend of mine was a little obsessed with cleaning her carpeting in the condo she brought brand new several years ago. She seemed to be at constant war with her wall-to-wall. I always assumed it was her strong design aesthetic that drove her to splurge on a...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 16, 2012 | Conceptual Art, Craft, Crochet, Doilies, Fabric, Fiber, Fibre, Garment, Handwork, Innovation, Inspiration, Knitting, Knotting, Textile, Wool
I needed to shed my years of sewing and knitting and general crafting so I went to art school. No more crochet hooks and embroidery hoops; I wanted to do Real Important Art.But it was only after I could finally separate out all the crocheted pot-holders and felted...
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