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 | Nov 30, 2012 | Art, Color, Colour, Denyse Thomasos, Globalization, Paint, Painting, Pattern, Process
Metropolis (2007), acrylic, charcoal, porous point marker on canvas, 84” x 132” Ignorance was truly bliss when I spotted this staggering, large painting at the AGO last month. I didn’t know of the artist, so I viewed it at face value, no back story. It was the...
by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 26, 2012 | Art, Commission, Craft, Crochet, Design, Installation, Pattern, Public Art, Sculpture
It’s a tricky business, doing a public-art commission for a private corporation, especially when there are big strings attached to the cash: the thing has to salute the business itself.The really tricky part is creating something that doesn’t pander to the...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 23, 2012 | Art, Art School, Color, Colour, Inspiration, Maker, Neon, Painting, Pattern, Perception, Process, Psychedelic
During my first day of art school, one of the instructors told the auditorium packed with other nervous Foundation-year students that this education would be not just about making the art, but making the artist; the art makes the artist. I wrote that one down because...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jul 18, 2012 | Additive, Art, Assemblage, Collaboration, Collage, Failure, Found Objects, Painting, Pattern, Process, Project
You’d think the biggest challenge of artists is deciding what to make. But every artist I know is challenged by deciding what not to make. There are so many competing pursuits that tend to be part of the lives of creative types: gardening, music, cooking,...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 25, 2011 | Design, Pattern, Rug, Textile, Weaving, Wool
Design has the most to say about the origin of what is commonly known as an Oriental carpet. But the patterns woven into a mysterious tattered, dun-coloured wool rug that has been in my family for as long as I can remember have led to more questions than answers.My...
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