by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 1, 2013 | Environmental Art, Fabricating, Fiber, Fibre, Garden, Handwork, Innovation, Installation, Knotting, Maker, Nature, Process, Public Art, Raw Materials, Sculpture, Sharon Kallis, Social Engagement, Weaving
I so adore this old World War I royalty-free poster created for the Canada Food Board that I post it in my kitchen every year during the putting-food-by months, already underway.I love the displayed array of fresh produce that would never be pushed by a private...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jul 12, 2013 | Architecture, Climate Change, Collaboration, Creative Process, Innovation, Inspiration, Invention, Maquette, Motivation, Process, Public Art, Rhonda Weppler, Trevor Mahovsky, Vancouver
Pretty, and pretty alarming stripes show future water levels. All the recent natural and unnatural disasters in this country — city-paralyzing changing-climate-induced floods in Calgary and then Toronto, an oil-tanker train disaster that derailed an entire...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 31, 2013 | Crochet, Doilies, Doily, Gallery, Innovation, Inspiration, Installation, Public Art, Sculpture, Street Art, Use Object
Sanitary Doily, a finalist in the City’s sewer-cover competition. I’m deluded enough to believe I can survive on an art practice in Vancouver but I am under no illusion that my Sanitary Doily will be selected to grace the city’s sanitary sewer covers...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 10, 2013 | Garden, Green Space, Inspiration, Metalworker, Public Art
I know I should be researching or finishing or conceiving or cleaning or thanking or discussing or working on proposals. But like everyone else in the northern Northern Hemisphere, I can barely remain indoors these fine days. Because — and I hate to be the bearer of...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 15, 2013 | Aesthetics, Art Discourse, Creative Process, Critique, Installation, Production, Public Art, Sculpture, Vancouver
A few weeks back, one of the local dailies ran a staff photo of a grumpy-looking woman wearing a hand-drawn sign around her neck that read: “Mount Pleasant needs a pool not a poodle on a pole.” God, I miss the newsroom sometimes. When that kind of photo lands on your...
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 14, 2012 | Installation, Public Art, Sculpture, Textile, Vancouver
At first I didn’t see what the fuss was about at the official artwork unveiling last weekend at Main and 18th. Unless the soggy mess of dirt and blue metal fencing in front of the new condo complex was some sort of statement about building boom upheaval.Maureen...
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