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 19, 2013 | Free Store, Gallery, Innovation, Networking, Photography, Process, Quilt, Raw Materials, Rug, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Studio, Textile, Upcycling, Use Object, Vancouver
Image found at vancouverisawesome.com I’ve been thinking for a long time that Vancouver needs a Free Store, just like the most popular ‘retail’ store on the Gulf Island of Lasqueti. And now there it is, inside the old vault of a former dim sum...
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 | Apr 5, 2013 | Art Discourse, Creative Process, Crochet, Design, Doily, Fabricating, Found Objects, Inspiration, Installation, Maker, Metalworker, Production, Sculpture, Vancouver
We are to understand that being distracted is bad, and being focused is good. Being focused will get the job done while being in the moment is not productive — productivity being the cornerstone of our prevailing Protestant work ethic.I’m aware that it is...
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 | Jan 10, 2013 | Art School, Collage, Found Objects, Ideas, Project, Sculpture
My New Year’s resolution this year is D&D: Divest and Dance.The idea is that if I clear some space by divesting myself of my art stuff I’ll have more room to dance. Or maybe it was: I’ll be doing a happy dance if I can get rid of some of that stuff. I don’t...
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