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 | Dec 20, 2013 | Architecture, Assemblage, Craft, Crafts, Creative Process, Crochet, Design, Fabricating, Handwork, Ideas, Innovation, Inspiration, Playing, Process, Research, Scale, Upcycling, Wool
The Crassmas season is one big distraction to me. But once I remind myself that a gift does not have to be a solution to someone’s problem but a simple, seasonal gesture, I embrace the chance to make, and make it merry.The place is a happy mess. Wool strands are...
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 20, 2013 | Collaboration, Color, Colour, Creative Process, Expression, Maker, Paint, Painting, Pattern, Perception, Playing, Process
What movie first rocked your world?, someone asked during a recent dinner with friends. Easy: 2001: A Space Odyssey, said one. Looking for Mr. Goodbar, said another, clearly remembering her fear.Mine was The Wizard of Oz. Never mind the munchkins and the flying...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jul 5, 2013 | Cirque Du Soleil, Conceptual Art, Creative Process, Environmental Art, Innovation, Inspiration, Malcolm Gladwell, Motivation, Natalie Jeremijenko, Performance, Playing, Process
My nephew is about to launch. Freshly freed from high school, he’ll soon be flying high at the National Circus School in Montreal. If there is one kid who would run away and join the circus, Domenic is it. Long before he pushed the physical limits of the human...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 11, 2013 | Creative Process, Lynda Barry, Playing, Poodle, Writing
Everything’s coming up poodles. A few months ago I was trying to dog a persistent human-sized crocheted poodle toilet-paper-roll cover. Then it was the whole public art controversy surrounding the ‘poodle on a pole.’ Then today, as I was researching...
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