by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 16, 2015 | Color, Colour, Distracts, Grid, Painting, Psychedelic, Quilt, Textile, Visual Field
Gotta love Salvation Army and the staff’s peculiar display choices. Every other store would break up all the retail items so each one looks unique, but at my local Salarmy they sort by colour, making finding your size sort of a crapshoot. But oh, that visual...
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 | 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 | Sep 12, 2011 | Painting, Process, Psychedelic
The only thing I miss about being 20 is going out of my mind. Or into my mind. Or just getting out of my context, for many lost hours. I miss those moments of ecstasy. There are really no opportunities for someone like me to explore the thrill of the edge, the sensory...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 29, 2011 | Art, Doily, Fractal, Process, Psychedelic, Writing
I don’t know what to think about this gravitational pull into psychedelic art and my obsession with the humble, throwaway doily. But it’s better that way.Better to learn through the making. It’s taken four years of full-time art school to get past my past way of...
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