by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 29, 2015 | AgentC Gallery, Exhibition, Found Objects, Maker, Sculpture, Surrey, Vancouver
It is excruciating to junk a piece of, well, in this case, junk. But it has to be done. Such is the reality of the Vancouver maker who likes to work large but lives in a small space. So I sacrifice Charm Bracelet, following the end of its one and only showing at the...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 5, 2015 | Additive, Art, Collaboration, Draw Down, Fiber, Fibre, Fibre Arts, Knotting, Macrame, Mt. Pleasant Community Centre, Network, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Social Media, Upcycling, Vancouver, Weaving
I’m not knocking social media. Hitting ‘Like’ to one posted act of injustice after another is nothing like joining a sit-in at your MP’s office or marching in protest. But I also get that there is power in those tweets and online petitions. We...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 22, 2015 | Building, Cob, Cob Oven, Collaboration, Construction, Handwork, Ideas, Industrial Design, Mud Girls, Nature, Raw Materials, Social Engagement, Vancouver
Where it all began: The Mud Girls retreat that sowed the seed for new/old building modes. Playing with mainly found materials, and whenever possible with other people, offers me the chance to learn about properties and potential of those throw-away materials as well...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 8, 2015 | ECUAD, Emily Carr University, Exhibit, Exhibition, Photography, Vancouver
“Hazel Cheng, 21, Bedroom in Family Home” (Photo by Mary Wendel Genosa) What I’d really like to see is a ‘realitylink’: an aggregate site devoted to photo tours of real Vancouver homes where people actually live, cook, eat, sleep, play, fight, have babies,...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 1, 2015 | Graffiti, Mural, Vancouver
A masked Spock commands attention at one of many houses slated for demolition outside the King Edward Canada Line station. (Carlyn Yandle photo) The alienating effect of walking by blocks of empty homes is seen in the writing on the wall. It is there in the masked...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 24, 2015 | Appropriation, Architecture, Cultural Hub, Doilies, Doily, Graffiti, Green Space, Guerrilla Art, Mural, Political Art, Protest, Public Art, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Vancouver, Wrap I, Wrap II
One of a handful of Vancouver’s ‘country lanes’ from a 2002 pilot projects. (Photo: Ben Nelms for National Post) And yet.And yet there is nothing like an untenable situation to spark a creative response. There is evidence of it in the spaces between,...
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