Fleeting: Exalting the Ephemeral

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Welcome to Metchosin ArtPod's ONLINE GALLERY for the juried show...

Fleeting:

Exalting the Ephemeral

FLEETING: We invited artists to explore AIR in all its meanings and possibilities for this unique show! Can we both celebrate AIR as a fundamental life force while also communication its fragility?

The juror for this show is Daniel Laskarin. Check out their work: on Instagram: @dlaskarin or Website: https://laskarin.ca/

The web gallery is where you can vote for your favourite piece in the exhibition. At the end of the run, votes are tallied and a People's Choice Award is presented to the deserving winner.

This show also exists in real life in Metchosin, BC, Canada, at the Metchosin ArtPod. We highly encourage you to come see it in person during its run from July 25, 2025- Sept 14, 2025. People are always happy to have seen the show in person; it is quite a different experience from seeing it on-line.

ArtPod is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11am-4pm.

We welcome everyone to our Opening Reception on SATURDAY, 26th of July from 2pm tp 4pm. Meet our juror, and hear how the works featured in this show were selected to bring the them to life, listen to accepted artists in attendance speak about their works and process, and celebrate the three Juror's Choice Winners!

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Ninth Avenue Cyclist

Ninth Avenue Cyclist

Phyllis Schwartz

CA$350.00

Dimensions: 22 x 28
Artist Statement: This photograph captures transience and movement, with the cyclist serving as both subject and symbol of impermanence within the city’s pulse. This piece explores blurred motion, not just to depict speed but to unveil the ephemeral nature of movement itself. The analogue process permits subtle variations in tone and texture, lending the image intimacy and immediacy despite its abstraction. Hints of recognizable urban elements emerge briefly within the abstraction, engaging pareidolia to suggest fleeting architectural outlines or the whisper of passing figures. The blurred motion technique does more than depict speed; it evokes the transient nature of everyday life and presence, emphasizing how moments slip by even as they appear vivid.
Medium: Gelatin silver print

The Voyage

A. Leigh Bell-Koch

CA$600.00

Dimensions: 40 x 28 x 1.5
Artist Statement: This painting is inspired by the Greek and Roman myth of the boatman on the river Styx. I find the idea that there is someone who helps the transition from life to death comforting, as it is a journey that we all must take eventually.
Medium: Oil on canvas

Get There From Here

Get There From Here

A. Leigh Bell-Koch

CA$500.00

Dimensions: 24 x 24 x 1.5
Artist Statement: This painting is an exploration of the distance between what you want and what you have, and between the past and present. The act of remembering creates distortions and, sometimes, a nauseating sense of vertigo. I wanted to create a sense of deep psychology through interior architecture and color.
Medium: Oil on canvas

Fleeting Mountain

Fleeting Mountain

Liz Reading

CA$90.00

Dimensions: 4 x 5 x 1
Artist Statement: This mountain scene explores the fleeting nature of perception. Though fixed and enduring, mountains rarely appear the same to us. Shifting light and atmospheric elements temporarily transform even this most permanent feature of the landscape. It reminds us that something so massive can also feel momentary. Changing seasons, weather, and even our moods influence how we experience it, shaping what we see, remember, and feel. Intentionally capturing this in a small painting heightens the contrast between the mountain’s physical scale and its fleeting presence as it passes through our perception. The viewer is invited to reflect on the transient beauty of a mountain that, even while always present, can also be fleeting and ephemeral.
Medium: Mixed media: Texturized watercolour composed on three sections of Arches paper, mounted on deckled-edge 100% cotton Khadi paper, mounted with archival, acid-free foam board on a texturized canvas.

Moving Bus Quartet

Moving Bus Quartet

Phyllis Schwartz

CA$300.00

Honorable Mention

Dimensions: 8 x 13
Artist Statement: Moving Bus Quartet explores the elusive nature of time through a lenticular camera, challenging perceptions of stillness. This series presents a fractured yet coherent vision—a quartet of fleeting figures seen through a shifting veil. The lenticular camera captures successive moments, tracing the subtle rhythm of movement within a single frame. This is a paradoxical image: a camera captures both static images and a dynamic dialogue between fleeting moments. The composition fractures and reassembles motion, crafting a rippling tapestry on bus windows of passengers dissolving into layered echoes and conveys a sense of transience. Moving Bus Quartet is visual poetry, composed of fragments of motion that reflect both external and internal journeys. The urban landscape becomes a fleeting stage, where figures blend and separate like whispers of a passing crowd. As a meditation on the ephemeral nature of experience, this image reveals the intricate rhythms that define everyday life.
Medium: Analogue photography

Finding the right words

Finding the right words

Iso Distracted

CA$325.00

Dimensions: 36 x 30 x 2
Artist Statement: Trying to find the right words. Conversations happen everyday. Fleeting moments in time that can have lasting effects. They can be awkward: Did you say the right thing? or they can be meaningful: Did I learn something? Whether it's a story, advice, or something you wish you had never said, they can be memorable- good or bad. Finding the right words can be hard, but most of the time it is well worth the effort.
Medium: Mixed media. Paint, paper craft and lino block printing.

World Builder

Dana Nygard

CA$800.00

Dimensions: 36 x 24 x 0.5
Artist Statement: Collaboration between Dana Nygard and Eri Sawatsky. What is it to build our own world? To perceive self and other, individually, empathically, and to perceive your own work through the lens of another. Whatever - morphing things, perception and the self. Beginning with the quickest gesture from life, in spontaneous movements of charcoal Dana captures a moment of external stillness by live model Eri. Gestures we may consider 'disposable' work, just quick practice and a moment passes - these seconds a model donates often never see light. Though instead of dissolution, Eri reimagines a swirling universe of self expression upon these sketches. A transmutation from simple form into celebration of self; inner, outer, and perceived. What began as a brisk moment becomes its own galaxy of meaning within the slow, meditative time Eri spends with each piece. A polyrhythmic expression where a new world of perception is forged, and released into catharsis.
Medium: Charcoal, paper, ink, paint mixed media on canvas

Soap Bubble

Elizabeth Carefoot

CA$150.00

Dimensions: 9 x 9
Artist Statement: In creating this piece I took advantage of the transparent nature of organza. I liked that the back of the stitching was as clearly visible as the front. I used the thinnest embroidery thread I could find, and built up some layers by over-stitching. I felt that any kind of commercial frame would overwhelm this fragile work, so I made my own frame with twisted wire and beads which was much more aligned with my vision. In my mind, “fleeting” is best depicted by a soap bubble. It is fragile, transient, transparent, and vanishes in the wink of an eye.
Medium: Vintage thread label, embroidery thread, organza, wire, semi-precious beads, glass beads.

Transient Light / Fluid Motion

Transient Light / Fluid Motion

Phyllis Schwartz

CA$300.00

Dimensions: 16 x 20
Artist Statement: In this composition motion serves as both the subject and the spirit. Although the photograph remains still, it effectively captures the fluidity of change. The deliberate use of a slow shutter speed reveals fleeting shapes and moments that dissolve into memory. This work embodies the essence of impermanence and illustrates the delicate balance between presence and disappearance. It is a narrative about the transient nature of life, a reminder that nothing is permanent.
Medium: Pigment ink on fibre

The Last Gasp 1 & 2

The Last Gasp 1 & 2

Angela Menzies

CA$100.00

Dimensions: 6 x 6 x 1
Artist Statement: Hikers and fisherman have a nickname for August, here on the Pacific Northwest Coast – Foggest. I long for these cool foggy mornings as I walk the coastline to the beach, before my day heats up with inescapable stifling temperatures. The dog-days of summer are almost over and if we’re lucky, balmy, rainy mornings will see us out. Soon, we’ll be bracing for the cooling winds that carry gold and orange tumbling leaves along with it – summer’s last gasp.
Medium: Bamboo leaf monoprint, oil ink on cotton rag paper

Long Beach Fog Bank

Long Beach Fog Bank

Elizabeth Ashworth

CA$300.00

Dimensions: 13.5 x 24 x 1.5
Artist Statement: This photograph was taken on a foggy August (‘Fogust’) afternoon at Long Beach, Pacific Rim National Park. It was my first visit to the famous beach, and I was disappointed that I could see little of the Pacific Ocean. Although the fog gradually dissipated, I appreciated the sense of mystery it produced, and its short-lived presence helped me pay more attention to the soft green waves, the smooth sand, the tumbled shells and stones, and the bull kelp at my feet.
Medium: Digital archival monoprint on photographic paper

Swamplight

Elizabeth Ashworth

CA$300.00

Dimensions: 28 x 36 x 2
Artist Statement: This photograph was taken during a hike to Witty’s Lagoon, near Victoria. Along the beach trail are several arbutus trees, covered with ‘old man’s beard’ (aka beard lichen). A breeze moved through the trees and lichen causing the filtered sunlight to dance briefly on the path. The experience made me look up and take a moment to enjoy the sun’s effort to push its light past thick branches and lichen clusters to the earth.
Medium: Digital archival monoprint on 100% cotton canvas

Metamorphose

Kaden Pompel

CA$1,200.00

Dimensions: 20 x 16
Artist Statement: Swathed with oil paint on the surrounding photographic paper, spreading onto the surrounding mat on which the image is left of center...this image is akin to the metamorphosis of awareness, the dying and waking moment, and conscious fluidity in line with Tibetan Buddhist tradition and belief. All of consciousness, especially within the scope of Tibetan Buddhism, is ephemeral in nature. In fact I'd argue that through this lens the word ephemeral has little meaning, or at least specificity, in that it is akin to the word everything or anything. Here lies the "ephemeral," or lack thereof, nature of the image.
Medium: Film photograph, oil paint, painted matboard

Emotionally Fragile

Emotionally Fragile

Andrew Bradford

CA$400.00

Dimensions: 8 x 12
Artist Statement: I have weathered wind and rain; on those dull days I was radiant. Drought and despair come and I retreat inward, surrounding myself with my desiccated hopes. Surely the wind will strip me of them, too.
Medium: Giclée on fine art paper from digital photograph: 100mm; 1/2s @ f/8

In a Moment, She Was Gone

In a Moment, She Was Gone

Monica Reekie

CA$400.00

Dimensions: 20 x 24 x 2
Artist Statement: After watching a pride of lions waking and stretching, preparing for their evening prowl, we started our drive back to camp with only the dim running lights on. Our driver saw the same pride emerging from the shrubs at the side of the road and stopped, turning off the lights completely. It was pitch dark but we could hear the heavy footfalls right beside us. As another vehicle came up behind their lights caught this lioness beside us. I raised my camera and was able to capture only two quick photos before they also turned off their lights. By the time the third vehicle arrived she was gone, as was the rest of her pride. She is out of focus, but a very clear memory remains of those few seconds in time.
Medium: Photograph on ultra premium photo pearl paper, limited edition of 3

Fleeting Beauty

Fleeting Beauty

Kim Money

CA$400.00

Dimensions: 36 x 12 x 1.5
Artist Statement: I think we all appreciate the beauty and fragility of flowers and usually stop to admire and smell them. As people, we waste so much time being negative, self critical and unhappy with ourselves we find ways to numb it out and act like life will last forever. Then you have to get a new passport photo and you look at it and realize life has completely fleeted on past you and you think: Damn I should've appreciated and smelled more of everything. PS You also notice that passport photo you hated 10 years ago looks pretty great now.
Medium: Acrylic and mixed media on canvas

Shelter

Cindy McMath

CA$275.00

Dimensions: 16 x 16 x 1.5
Artist Statement: My piece “Shelter” contemplates the impermanence of shelter in the current environment of climate change, political polarity and economic uncertainty - while shelter is traditionally something so many of us have taken (and do take) for granted. Add a strained infrastructure of loosely stitched together government and private agencies and we have a dangerous situation with a frayed safety net. In my piece, a structure has been partially submerged by the sea, while a thin lifeline is thrown towards it symbolized by a Red Cross. The arch shape offers some protection overhead, but will it hold? And if it does, the structure is still in the ocean.
Medium: Mixed media (acrylic and collage) on canvas

Step In My Shoes

Step In My Shoes

Tina Lloyd

CA$450.00

Dimensions: 20 x 24 x 1.5
Artist Statement: Have you ever wondered how a child’s adventures and experiences have affected their life? From the young learning to walk, to elders with seasoned experiences, each are unique and impactful to their souls. In the blink of an eye, how time passes. From a toddler to an old man their journeys can only be walked in their shoes. Attention purely focused on the shoes as they have carried one's soul in their individual unique life's journey.
Medium: Acrylic on canvas in custom-built wood frame.

Chaos and Resilience

Chaos and Resilience

Tina Lloyd

CA$250.00

Dimensions: 12 x 9 x 1.5
Artist Statement: There have been spiritual, political, financial and territorial wars for generations. Our planet has shown us tsunamis, tornado’s, droughts, floods, fires, disease and more. However, people have such strength to push forward. Our planet provides regrowth and changes and this supports people to become even more resilient as we engage in the good of the world. There is a calm that follows a storm and time to rebuild, regroup. Chaos is a ‘fleeting moment’ in time that produces resilience.
Medium: Oil on wood panel. Set in a custom-built wood frame.

A Tender Moment

A Tender Moment

Tina Lloyd

CA$220.00

Dimensions: 12 x 16 x 1.5
Artist Statement: During a family visit there was this image captured that I cannot erase. My father who showed no emotions had placed my child on his lap at the kitchen table. She was gently held by him while he shared his favorite snack of cut up oranges with her. He embraced her, showed gentle love and simple conversation. This scene hit me like a ton of bricks as they say. It showed fragility in the young and old and how love is all we need to thrive. Moments of kindness and love in action.
Medium: Oil on wood panel in a custom-built wood frame. Painted to guide you through the center and into that moment.

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