by Carlyn Yandle | May 31, 2013 | Crochet, Doilies, Doily, Gallery, Innovation, Inspiration, Installation, Public Art, Sculpture, Street Art, Use Object
Sanitary Doily, a finalist in the City’s sewer-cover competition. I’m deluded enough to believe I can survive on an art practice in Vancouver but I am under no illusion that my Sanitary Doily will be selected to grace the city’s sanitary sewer covers...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 5, 2013 | Art Discourse, Creative Process, Crochet, Design, Doily, Fabricating, Found Objects, Inspiration, Installation, Maker, Metalworker, Production, Sculpture, Vancouver
We are to understand that being distracted is bad, and being focused is good. Being focused will get the job done while being in the moment is not productive — productivity being the cornerstone of our prevailing Protestant work ethic.I’m aware that it is...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 15, 2013 | Aesthetics, Art Discourse, Creative Process, Critique, Installation, Production, Public Art, Sculpture, Vancouver
A few weeks back, one of the local dailies ran a staff photo of a grumpy-looking woman wearing a hand-drawn sign around her neck that read: “Mount Pleasant needs a pool not a poodle on a pole.” God, I miss the newsroom sometimes. When that kind of photo lands on your...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 1, 2013 | Art, Assemblage, Color, Conceptual Art, Creative Process, Culture, Fabricating, Found Objects, Innovation, Inspiration, Installation, Process, Upcycling, Use Object, Use Objects
My not-quite-resolved plastic quilty test. I’ve been left high and dry, marooned by a foul waste stream — a particular category of non-recycled stuff that ends up in Vancouver’s landfill. This category consists of many boxes of rigid-plastic toy bits that my nephews...
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 21, 2012 | Colour, Installation, Perception
VIrtual spin art: Twirl your smartphone and click. Better: Twirl yourself and click. Art is in the everyday, even at the Van Dusen Gardens on another miserable rainy night last week.There’s no narrative in those hundreds of thousands of LED coloured lightbulbs...
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 14, 2012 | Installation, Public Art, Sculpture, Textile, Vancouver
At first I didn’t see what the fuss was about at the official artwork unveiling last weekend at Main and 18th. Unless the soggy mess of dirt and blue metal fencing in front of the new condo complex was some sort of statement about building boom upheaval.Maureen...
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