by Carlyn Yandle | May 29, 2014 | Art Discourse, Billy Patko, Craft, Crafts, Creative Process, Crochet, Douglas-coupland, Exhibit, Found Objects, Gallery, Handwork, Hot Art Wet City, Ideas, Inspiration, Lynda Barry, Playing, Process, Project, Rachael Ashe, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Vancouver
I would rather watch the little kids in my life play than watch the best TV. But it’s tricky because they don’t like to be observed and if they feel I’m too interested, they are on to me and it all comes to a halt. I have to refrain from the urge to...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 21, 2014 | Additive, Beauty, Buttons, Color, Colour, Composition, Craft, Craftsmanship, Creative Process, Critique, Design, Distraction, Fabric, Fabricating, Failure, Fiber, Fibre, Found Objects, Handwork, Ideas, Innovation, Motivation, Pattern, Perception, Performance Art, Polly-apfelbaum, Process, Production, Project, Qr Code, Quilt, Textile, Upcycling, Use Object, Use Objects, Visual Field
After three months of sewing one donated button after another into a giant QR code, the big moment arrived this week: time to stand back and scan that baby with a reader app, translating this quilt-thing to read, “The devil is in the details.”Except it...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 14, 2014 | Commission, Douglas-coupland, Innovation, Installation, Nature, Project, Public Art, Sculpture, Surrealism, Vancouver
This week marks the unveiling of Golden Tree, Douglas Coupland’s latest public artwork, to be installed next year at the southern gateway to Vancouver, at Cambie and Marine Drive.The gold-patina, steel-reinforced resin and fiberglass mirror image of the famous...
by Carlyn Yandle | Feb 28, 2014 | Architecture, Assemblage, Cluster, Colour, Creative Process, Design, Garden, Ideas, Industrial Design, Innovation, Inspiration, Installation, Joseph Beuys, Pattern, Production, Project, Public Art, Research, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Upcycling
My mind has been buzzing with thoughts of legendary environmentalist-artist Joseph Beuys as I’ve been hatching an idea for a public artwork that is not so much intrusive as inclusive, especially if you’re a native mason bee.It is the convergence of my love...
by Carlyn Yandle | Feb 21, 2014 | Blogs, Display, Exhibit, Fabricating, Fashion, Garment, Innovation, Inspiration, Installation, Project, Research, Textile
Everything I need to know I learn on blogs, at least when it comes to making stuff. Most recently, I needed to display a knitted artwork for an upcoming show this weekend but I did not want a big ol’ plastic men’s torso crowding up my studio so I googled...
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 13, 2013 | Additive, Architecture, Assemblage, Collaboration, Commission, Craftsmanship, Fabricating, Found Objects, Industrial Design, Innovation, Maker, Metalworker, Project, Waterwork
While the rest of us are scrambling to post our recent activity, build our brand, be a part of the online conversation, Noah is solving problems through metal. His underwhelming website is testimony to what he does instead all day long instead of sitting at a...
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