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by | Jan 30, 2026 | Amanda Wood, Braiding, Carlyn Yandle, Creative Process, Denim, Exhibit, Exhibition, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Fracture, Hand Stitching, Jeans, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Knots, Knotting, Macrame, Marine Palette, Material Exploration, Nodes, Playing, Resurge, Seymour Art Gallery, Substack, Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki, Textile, Textile Art, Unravel, Visual Artist

Hope empowers quirky denim objectsI’ve had this exchange a few times this past week:You’re so busy. What are you working on?Uh… hard to say. ​It’s hard to put into words this curious crafty endurance with a deadline. Better to just hold up my needle-scarred fingers...

Awkward family moment informs art-making aesthetic

by | Jul 14, 2024 | Activism, Aesthetics, Aging, Art Discourse, Art Show, Beauty, Carlyn Yandle, Creative Process, Critique, Dissent, Domestic, Embroidery, Fabric, Fiber, Fiber Artist, Fibre Arts, Flow, Found Materials, Fuckwit, Garment, Hand Stitching, Handmade, Handmaking, Ideas, Inspiration, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Knotting, Macrame, Material Exploration, Motivation, Needlework, Painting, Scaffolds, Unbridled, Wall Hanging, Wearable Art

When I first started out as a suburban-newspaper reporter I had a single original artwork tacked to the wall in my basement suite. It was a life-sized acrylic-on-paper, a nude holding her maybe-pregnant belly against a landscape of spewing factories and...

Tripping on this troublesome rug

by | Dec 6, 2019 | Art School, Braided Rug, Carlyn Yandle, Conceptual Craft, Crafts, Creative Process, Critique, Deep Craft, Denim, Design, Domestic, Fiber, Fiber Artist, Fiber Arts, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Handmaking, Jeans, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, Labor, Labour, Macrame, Resurge, Slow Craft, Textile, Upcycling, Vancouver, Visual Language, Weaving

In the final critique of my final work in this second-to-final semester of graduate studies, I could see that there was going to be trouble.  ​From the start, there was the trouble of actually getting a full view of this sprawling, chaotic, twisted mass of...

Pretty, and pretty toxic denim inspires new work

by | Jul 6, 2018 | Construction, Creative Process, Exploration, Fabric, Fabricating, Fashion, Fiber, Fibre Arts, Found Materials, Found Objects, Jeans, Knots, Macrame, Quilting, Resurge, Use Objects, Wall Hanging

There ought to be an international law against the dirty business of jeans manufacturing.It poisons waterways, mainly in China, prompting environmental groups to raise the alarm against the devastation to communities and local ecosystems, yet consumers around the...