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Inspiration from those who make it, through Crassmas

Inspiration from those who make it, through Crassmas

by | Dec 12, 2014 | Art, Artist, Caroline Eriksson, Ceca Georgieva, Christmas, Color, Colour, Craft, Craftsmanship, Creative Process, Culture, DSquared2, Emily Blincoe, Gingerbread, Ideas, Maker, Making, Meditative, Performance Art, Sculpture

It’s not too late to say, Nay! I will not be coerced into this coming two-week commercial frenzy. I will steer my little ship into calmer waters! Instead of joining the throngs of harried consumers grabbing up plastic chocolate-pooping reindeer and ironic...
Feeling the squeeze all part of the practice

Feeling the squeeze all part of the practice

by | Oct 17, 2014 | Art Show, Body Of Work, Carlyn Yandle, Cityspace Gallery, Collaboration, Collage, Domestic, Domestic Interventions, Exhibit, Fibre, Fibre Arts, Gallery, Installation, Janet Wang, Monique Motut-Firth, North Vancouver, Painting, Sculpture

Janet Wang plays with the Madonna and Child mainstay. I spent most of the day yesterday sitting with a very close friend in a hospital bed, waiting for the surgeon to slice into her gut and remove a large cyst and maybe an ovary or two. Or maybe all her lady parts....
A Season of snarls

A Season of snarls

by | Jul 11, 2014 | Assemblage, Color, Colour, Construction, Crafts, Creative Process, Design, Fiber, Fibre, Found Objects, Industry, Installation, Knotting, Macrame, Raw Materials, Sculpture, Technology, Textile, Upcycling

Macrame-ing cable wire. Carlyn Yandle photo A big shout-out to the recycling staffer at my local Return-It depot who painstakingly went through a bin full of snarls of computer cables to select the ones with the most colourful clusters of wire for me.I find it tough...