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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Swoop

Laura Feeleus

CA$350.00

Dimensions: 33 x 23 x 1
Artist Statement: I live high up off the ground and often see flocks of birds swooping past my windows. In this piece I’m using a combination of paint, stitch and thin fabrics to represent their movement in the sun and air.
Medium: Silk, organza, found fabrics, acrylic gouache, gold and silk threads

Shape Shifter

Pierrette Vezina

CA$350.00

Dimensions: 14 x 11 x 1.5
Artist Statement: Human presence on earth is so very transient both in a macro and micro sense. We exist in a huge solar system as wee specks destined for expiry from the moment of birth. Humans shape-shift every moment of every day.
Medium: Acrylic paint, collage from my hand made prints, oil pastel

Fade Away

Pierrette Vezina

CA$350.00

Dimensions: 14 x 11 x 1.5
Artist Statement: Our species is simply fading away on a global and on a physical level. Humans grow paler and more translucent over time all while creating an environment that is determining the slow fade of the planet.
Medium: Acrylic paint, collage from my hand pulled prints, oil pastel.

Boundaries A/P

Dave Skilling

CA$750.00

Dimensions: 26 x 18.5 x 1.5
Artist Statement: You catch a glimpse of a figure as you step into the empty street. Their presence is almost ghost-like and they quickly disappear from your vision. You proceed, forgetting the incident almost immediately.
Medium: Linocut print, ink on paper

Reflecting Pond

Reflecting Pond

Karen Whyte

CA$2,150.00

Dimensions: 30 x 40 x 1.5
Artist Statement: The Reflecting Pond at the Norton Gallery in Pasadena is an oasis of stillness within a teeming metropolis. Large trees that separate the pond from the city outside caste an ever-changing image on the surface of the pond. Shifting and refracting shapes intrigue and calm the soul.
Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Dancing Light

Karen Whyte

CA$475.00

Dimensions: 22 x 30 x 1
Artist Statement: This painting is inspired by shadows moving across a wall. The room was dim, but bright morning light was streaming through translucent curtains on a window across the room. Sudden, beautiful and briefly confusing, the shadows danced and were gone.
Medium: Oil on paper

Now You See Me

Kim Money

CA$1,000.00

Dimensions: 30 x 30 x 1.5
Artist Statement: I was using flowers to depict fragile and fleeting beauty because it is what we spend the most time trying not to lose. But there are so many other fleeting things that effect your quality of life to a greater degree like: Energy - which we take for granted but sure do miss when it's gone. Strength - we think we will always have Clydesdale-like power but one day you can't open a bag of chips. Health -which we don't do much to hold on to and in reality most of my healthy habits were vanity induced anyway. Life - we waste so much of it concentrating on the quest for beauty and youth and focusing on how we don't make the grade. It permeates all the important things we need to have joy. So why not stop and visually smell these flowers!! And then visually have an ice cream (less calories) Noooo eat it - go for joy!!
Medium: Acrylic and mixed media

Rolling Thunder Approaching

Rolling Thunder Approaching

Edward Peck

CA$350.00

Dimensions: 17 x 22
Artist Statement: At the end of BC 101 the road runs into the chuck. Standing looking at the gathering clouds, the wind patterns move across the water. The fleet of boats are safe behind me and the harbour barriers, and one lone fishing boat 16902 is tethered and waiting in front of me. It seems far too calm for what is moving slowly above its raised outriggers in their crosstrees. The sky and sea are alive. There is darkness and colour. I am riveted in place by the majesty of what surrounds me in this fleeting moment.
Medium: Pigment ink on cotton paper

Block and Sunset

Block and Sunset

Edward Peck

CA$350.00

Dimensions: 17 x 22
Artist Statement: The morning weather is clearing as I walk carefully out onto the decommissioned dock. Hernado Island is bracketed between the sea and the low lying cloud bank. Beyond is the landscape, unmarred by industry, wild and unlike the derelict lift with its block still and echoed in what is left of the night's rain. It is not the first time I have stood here, but this morning is different. A brief moment unlike the other moments. I take this scene home with me to remember the intensity of the chill, colours, and taste of the air.
Medium: pigment ink on cotton

Impermanence

Eduardo Fausti

CA$1,000.00

Juror's Choice Award

Dimensions: 14.5 x 12.5
Artist Statement: I often work in series that I revisit over the years. Some are rooted in my extensive travels in Southeast Asia where I encountered many remnants of Buddhist architectural relics. Drawing from photographs taken on these journeys, l developed a series of photogravures. In one image I captured the weathered remains of a seated Buddha statue - an eroded sculpture exposed to the elements for centuries seemingly dissolving into the wall behind it. Since most of my work is based on the medium of printmaking, I couldn’t help but see this site as a matrix from which I could develop additional images. The splendor of past magnificence now long gone serves as a metaphor for the passage of time and a telling reminder of the impermanence of things in general. Hence its title “Impermanence.”
Medium: Photogravure

Novice's Whisper

Novice's Whisper

Eduardo Fausti

CA$1,000.00

Dimensions: 12.5 x 14.5
Artist Statement: This print is part of a series of photogravures inspired by my travels in Southeast Asia. It shows a novice walking past a building - an image l interpreted as a quiet reflection on the vestiges we leave during our brief passage through life. I titled it “Novice's Whisper.” Through this series, I attempt to convey a sense of calm and a recognition of the shared humanity that connects us as well as a realization that everything we perceive as reality is in a constant state of flux. We all share this life and are all likewise subject to its fleeting moments.
Medium: Photogravure

Waiting for Breakfast II

Waiting for Breakfast II

Edward Peck

CA$350.00

Honorable Mention

Dimensions: 17 x 22
Artist Statement: Waiting for breakfast against the exposed patterns at low tide, the stillness reflects a moment that will not be repeated. The transition from cliff to water is almost imperceptible within the psychedelic surfaces that frame the heron. Their eyes waiting for movement beneath their legs, and when they strike the water will reveal itself, and the ripples will disturb the symmetry. I have come again trying to find this scene, but it now only exists in this image, this moment.
Medium: cotton paper and pigment ink

It's Your Turn

Kathy Guthrie

CA$900.00

Dimensions: 28 x 1.5 x 28
Artist Statement: The muted grid of a checkerboard on translucent film both obscure and reveal my memory of my sister as a young woman. The veil created by the acrylic on the film softens her face yet allows a glimpse into the past.
Medium: Photograph, acrylic, frosted mylar mounted on wood cradle with plexi-glass cover

HERM series

John G. Boehme

CA$500.00

Dimensions: 64 x 9 x 0.16
Artist Statement: Component of performances in Chicago, Victoria, and Bielsko-Biala, Poland. I would grow various styles of facial hair, including mutton chops, mustaches, and beards (full, Shia, and Sunni). During a culmination of these performances, I would saturate the facial hair with latex and cut it off in one whole piece, adhering it to a surface or reliquary, often as a fleeting signifier of maleness or masculinity. The title herm (or herme) is derived from a type of sculpture originating in ancient Greece and later adopted by Romans, typically consisting of a square or rectangular stone pillar topped with a bust of a head, often of the god Hermes (hence the name), and usually featuring male genitalia carved in relief on the front of the column. I use facial hair in place of these male genitalia and stainless steel in place of stone, bronze or wood.
Medium: Performance art relic, human hair and stainless steel

Memory of a Dream

Memory of a Dream

Susan Underwood

CA$350.00

Dimensions: 17 x 132 x 2
Artist Statement: Trying to capture a dream’s essence before it fades is an experience most of us have shared. Sometimes a fragment from our unconscious surprises us in the middle of our day and we question how it relates to our conscious world. A dream can also be an aspiration, a desire, a purpose we long for. This too can be ephemeral and fleeting, buried by the business of “making a living.” How important it is to renember the dream?
Medium: Pen and ink, collage

Footsteps

Susan Underwood

CA$250.00

Dimensions: 15 x 12 x 2
Artist Statement: Footsteps captures a moment in a universal journey, time’s quick passing. The boy follows in the footsteps of his father. From my perspective as a mother of a son who is now a father, these moments are fleeting and precious.
Medium: Photogravure

Fleeting: Exalting the Ephemeral

Fleeting: Exalting the Ephemeral

Dyan Marie

CA$203.00

Juror's Choice Award

Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.25
Artist Statement: This text-based work explores the impermanence of gesture, trace, and memory through six descriptive pieces. Each artwork documents a minor act or material residue—markings on skin, the slow accumulation of contact, the compression of discarded fragments—emphasizing what is transient, overlooked, or physically slight. Presented only as descriptions, the works distill experience into language while intentionally refusing visual permanence. In doing so, they highlight the fragile threshold between presence and absence and explore how meaning might persist as materiality recedes.
Medium: Text on paper

Morning Light

Elshadai Silla

CA$100.00

Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 0.5
Artist Statement: Sometimes inspiration, for me, is fleeting. It is the light, colour, pattern and/or line created by the arrangements of objects I just happen to see out of the corner of my eye. I resist arranging objects to paint. I try to see what is around me and in this instance it is a toaster and dirty kitchen wear by the sink. I was in a rush to get out of the house so I snapped a picture. I knew this arrangement of objects with this light will never happen again unless I painstakingly arranged it myself. I played with the filter on my phone to get this black and white image and painted it.
Medium: Oil on canvas

One moment

MaryLou Wakefield

CA$1,200.00

Juror's Choice Award

Dimensions: 30 x 40 x 1
Artist Statement: This piece was inspired by a cherished daily ritual, what I refer to as ‘joy spotting’. It’s an intentional practice of looking for, and finding a moment, however brief, that fills me with joy. It could be as fleeting as the reflection of light on a bedroom wall, the shimmer of sea sparkle across the ocean, or a field of wildflowers dancing in the wind. Often, what makes these moments even more special is that they are unexpected and brief. A favourite, is that moment when a tiny bird flits into view, lands on a tall blade of grass, and for a brief moment offers the world its most spectacular song and is gone. Donna Ashworth’s poem Joy comes back, offers her view. “When you finally realize that joy is less fireworks more firefly, less orchestra more birdsong she will come back much more often, for joy will not fight with the fast pace of this life, she is not in the shiny or the new, she breathes in the basic, simmers in the simple and dances in the daily to and fro…”
Medium: Acrylic and ink on canvas

Mists of Time

Liz Wells

CA$120.00

Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 1
Artist Statement: As an artist and photographer, I’ve found my most authentic expression through the lens — not to hold time still, but to capture the idea of fleeting thought. Time, in its essence, is fluid. What feels momentary now may echo for centuries, while once-monumental events fade into obscurity. At 10, 200, or 1,000 years, even the most significant acts can be diminished, their meanings softened or lost. In Mists of Time, a hazy statue emerges — a trace of someone once important. Who they were, and what they meant to society, is obscured by time’s mist.
Medium: Photograph

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