by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 22, 2013 | Art Discourse, Art History, Art School, Artist Statement, Creative Process, Crochet, Cultural Studies, Doilies, Doily, Ideas, Joseph Beuys, Knotting, Maker, Performance, Performance Art, Process, Project, Social History
My biggest obstacle is over-thinking — not to be confused with big thinking. Over-thinking is my umbrella term for all the second-guessing, the predicting, the analyzing and the re-thinking that can turn my mind into a maelstrom. It’s unproductive and it’s...
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 | Feb 8, 2013 | Art Discourse, Creative Process, Critique, Ideas, Perception, Process
I do so love a shit-disturber, whether it’s fearless Middle-East reporter/author Robert Fisk ripping apart mainstream media last Saturday night downtown or the venerable art critic Jan Verwoert at UBC Wednesday night, talking about “irreconcilable ape-shittedness.”...
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 | 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 | 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...
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