by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 31, 2014 | Buttons, Children, Collaboration, Craft, Creative Process, Expression, Fabric, Fibre Arts, Garment, Halloween, Mister Rogers, Performance, Thrift Stores, Vancouver
What do you do when one of your closest friends is in the hospital with complications and the weather outside is the perfect visual for seasonal depression? You make!And so I devote this column to the silly business of making and make-believe in trying times. First,...
by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 2, 2014 | Author, Betsy Greer, Books, Craftivism, Creative Process, Hot Art Wet City, Kim Piper Werker, Leanne Prain, Vancouver, Yarn Bombing
(Photo by Carlyn Yandle) What do you do when you’re suddenly confronted by a threatening sign where this year’s crop of wild blackberries were leveled along the Arbutus corridor?You yarn-bomb it, of course. That’s what one craftivist did, and...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 22, 2014 | Art, Commission, Lost Painting, Paint, Painting, Vancouver, Vancouver International Airport, YVR
Grey Lace, 2014, by Carlyn Yandle. Acrylic on canvas, 40″ x 67″ This week I am testing the usefulness of social media in locating a painting.Grey Lace is not my first commission, but a favourite, done over two months this past winter. It is an abstract...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 1, 2014 | Art Discourse, Blogs, Critique, Cultural Studies, Culture, Culture Jamming, Dafen Village, Environmental Art, Expression, Found Objects, Inspiration, Kyoto, Marketing, Meditative, Motivation, Photography, Process, Social Engagement, Social Media, Vancouver, Wood
Zen Garden, Buddhist Temple, Japan The first time I saw a “dry landscape” Zen garden in one of the hundreds of temples in Kyoto, my brain sort of short-circuited.This was the mid-’80s, and here was a Zen Buddhist priest meticulously raking the gravel...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jul 18, 2014 | Conceptual Art, Creative Process, Critique, Film, Innovation, Installation, Mark Lewis, Perception, Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, Video
Now that we’re all carrying around the equivalent of movie cameras and photo-editing studios in our pockets and purses we are each potential blockbuster or documentary filmmakers, iMovie-ing and uploading all of life’s activities that have become...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 20, 2014 | Art, Business, Cultural Hub, Display, Exhibit, Gallery-row, Gentrification, Marketing, South-granville, Vancouver
The neighbourhood as it was when I lived there. I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with South Granville, the shopping strip between 6th and 16th Avenues.This was the neighbourhood of my first apartment, a $350-per-month studio in the old Greenwood Lodge, in the...
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