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Air: Exploring Our Place In The Atmosphere

Public voting (any user) is enabled ( 1 votes) from 31/05/2024, 11:00 (PDT) until 28/07/2025, 23:56 (PDT)

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

AIR:

Exploring our place in the atmosphere

AIR: 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 Samantha Dickie. Check out their work: on Instagram: @samantha.dickie.studio or Website: https://www.samanthadickie.com

The web gallery is where you can vote for your favourite piece in the show. At the end of the show's 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 Metchosin ArtPod. We highly encourage you to come see it  in person during its run from April 4th 2025- May 25th 2025. People are always happy to have seen the show in person; it is quite a different experience from seeing it on-line.

**Note that ArtPod is open from 11am-4pm  from Fri-Sun.**

We welcome everyone to our  Opening Celebration on SATURDAY the 5th of April from 2pm tp 4pm. Meet our juror, and hear how she choose the works featured in this show,  listen to accepted artists in attendance speak about their works and process, and celebrate the 3 Juror's Choice Winners!

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Enjoy the show!

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Breathe Into Me: Stories Written in Smoke
Breathe Into Me: Stories Written in Smoke
Dyan Marie
CA$75.00


Dimensions: 84 x 11 x 0.1
Inspiration:: Breathe Into Me explores the ephemeral nature of air and memory through the act of smoking. The piece captures 35 recalled stories, shaping breath into a transient movement of air, emphasizing the atmosphere as both a physical and symbolic space where our experiences are suspended and fleeting. By framing smoke as gesture and inscription, the work engages with themes of impermanence, ritual, and the body’s interaction with the environment. The act of smoking—once a social ritual, now a transgressive act—becomes a means of marking presence, leaving an imprint in the atmosphere even as it disappears. Each curl of smoke represents the intersection of memory and breath, reflecting how something intangible carries the weight of personal histories. A meditation on the seen and unseen, Breathe Into Me considers how our place in the atmosphere is marked by the ephemeral traces of our lived moments.
Materials and Process:: Text of poems printed on vinyl
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Airborne
Airborne
Laura Feeleus
CA$250.00


Inspiration:: I was exploring the tension between the unseen microscopic particles floating in the air and the tactile quality of textiles.
Materials and Process:: Metal hoop, net, wool, silk, synthetics, embroidered thread
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The Birth of a Tropical Storm
The Birth of a Tropical Storm
Kim Money
CA$450.00


Dimensions: 24 x 24 x 1.5
Inspiration:: I find the storm maps taken from sattellites to be like beautiful moving abstract paintings with the colours corresponding to the temperatures and severity. I notice there are much larger areas of dark red, orange and blue signifying more potentially destructive storms and I am concerned about the effect warmer temperatures are having on the intensity of these extreme weather events.
Materials and Process:: Acrylic and mixed media on cradled board
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Mother and Child
Mother and Child
Phyllis Schwartz
CA$200.00


Dimensions: 8 x 10
Inspiration:: Mother and Child captures a moment suspended in time, displaying the gentle rhythms of nature and the quiet beauty of organic forms. This lumen print is made at the intersection of art and the natural environment, revealing the hidden potential of exploring atmospheric conditions as an integral part of creative expression. Winter seaweed was placed on photographic printing paper for two days, letting misty atmospheric conditions make a photogenic drawing to record the experience. By exposing this lumen print to a wintery rainy atmosphere for two days, nature influenced and shaped the outcome, resulting in subtle transitions between colours that suggest movement and fluidity.
Materials and Process:: Lumen Print
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Atmospheric Tranquility
Atmospheric Tranquility
Phyllis Schwartz
CA$300.00


Dimensions: 14 x 11
Inspiration:: Inspired by the passage of a fierce storm and the sun’s gentle return, 'Atmospheric Tranquility' records nature’s fleeting renaissance at the crossroads of chaos and peace. This lumen print embodies the fresh breath after the storm, where every particle hums with dormant energy and newfound clarity. This sacred alchemy presents a moment where art becomes a portal to an elemental dance inspired by earth, water and air.
Materials and Process:: Lumen Print
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Tofino Sunrise
Tofino Sunrise
Phyllis Schwartz
CA$300.00


Dimensions: 14 x 11
Inspiration:: The inspiration behind 'Purple Mist' stems from an ambiance thick with atmospheric qualities—a day characterized by persistent rain and a dense, enveloping atmosphere. This natural setting is captured with an intimacy that reflects the synergy between environment and art. The lumen print records atmospheric conditions, utilizing them as an intrinsic element of its creation and lending an ephemeral unique photogram. This process allows light to sculpt the image directly on the paper, bypassing the need for a camera. As a result, the print embodies an organic synthesis of realism and abstraction, where shadow and light are the primary architects of form.
Materials and Process:: Lumen Print
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Gateway
Gateway
Penny Woodworth
CA$700.00


Dimensions: 12 x 14 x 1
Inspiration:: The rising sun through the morning mist....
Materials and Process:: Pastel and pastel pencil
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Dust in the Air
Dust in the Air
Elizabeth Carefoot
CA$650.00


Dimensions: 64 x 36
Inspiration:: Dust is with us everywhere in the air - even in space. Looking at dust motes under the microscope, I was inspired to create this transparent hanging featuring red dust which is so common in many parts of the world. I used transparent organza as my medium because of its airy qualities.
Materials and Process:: Organza fabric, lurex, embroidery thread. Process: Hand-stitched appliqué.
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Milky Way
Milky Way
Edward Peck
CA$250.00


Dimensions: 28 x 22 x 0.5
Inspiration:: In the heart of the Celtic Shipyard, I find myself enveloped by the bracing sea air, where each breath becomes a connection to the elements. The water reminds me that air is a master sculptor of the Earth, shaping and transforming all within its reach. My gaze comes to focus on the ship's hull, resting just at the play of the waterline, where water and air have danced upon the steel. Their collaboration are abstract compositions from stem to stern as restoration reveals the decades of interplay between these element layer on layer.
Materials and Process:: Archival pigment inks on cotton paper
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Yard at Rest
Yard at Rest
Edward Peck
CA$400.00


Dimensions: 22 x 28 x 0.5
Inspiration:: In embrace of early morning air by the tidal estuary, the sun washing its colours upon the coiled steel, its light transforming the scene I stop and take it all in. The air, alive with purpose, has been transforming the elements that hold these shapes in place. It is a tranquil scene but can imagine the pulsating vitality as the air breathes new life, new forms onto the surfaces of the awakening steel.
Materials and Process:: Archival pigment inks on cotton paper
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FLIGHT
FLIGHT
Monica Reekie
CA$500.00


Dimensions: 24 x 30 x 1.5
Inspiration:: I spent a day using intentional camera movement (ICM) photography at Esquimalt Lagoon and when I downloaded the images this one reminded me of the Concorde airplanes in flight. From birds looking for updraughts to massive planes, air, though invisible, is necessary for life and living.
Materials and Process:: Photograph on premium photo paper mounted to Dibond with a protective finish, #1 of 1
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Can You Breathe?
Can You Breathe?
Pierrette Vezina
CA$300.00


Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 1.5
Inspiration:: As I reflect on the role of art in the face of climate change, I am so aware of how air, an invisible entity, can be so essential to all life on this planet. It seems to me that humans will continue to take breathing in air as a given until it is not. My work is a celebration of the gift of air.
Materials and Process:: Acrylic paint, Woody Marker, ballpoint pen.
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Breathe in. Breathe Out.
Breathe in. Breathe Out.
Pierrette Vezina
CA$300.00


Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 1.5
Inspiration:: Air is our much neglected friend that is always there, until one day it is not. My true wish is that the humans on this planet will rally behind their best friend, air, before it floats away forever.
Materials and Process:: Acrylic paint, Woody Marker, ballpoint pen on cradled board.
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Light me Up #2
Light me Up #2
Kim Money
CA$350.00


Dimensions: 16 x 16 x 1.5
Inspiration:: Something hopeful - plants produce breathable oxygen by utilizing carbon dioxide in the air. They also filter the air by removing pollutants like benzene, formaldehyde, and trichloroethylene, which sound like things we definitely want removed, so let's plant more plants and cut down less trees. Pass it on......
Materials and Process:: Acrylic and mixed media on cradled panel
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#savethebees
#savethebees
Angela Menzies
CA$150.00


Dimensions: 8 x 8 x 1
Inspiration:: Stand in the middle of any garden and you’ll be in the generous company of bees. It’s been said that the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that. They appear to effortlessly hover in mid-air, yet this illusion requires them to create a tornado of air by rapidly twisting their wings. It is far from effortless – their struggle to both hover and survive in air that is being rapidly polluted by humans. Air pollution can harm bees in many ways, including making it harder for them to find food, damaging their immune systems, and reducing their ability to learn and remember.
Materials and Process:: Lino block print, oil inks on cotton paper
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Death's-head Hawkmoth
Death's-head Hawkmoth
Angela Menzies
CA$150.00


Dimensions: 8 x 8 x 1
Inspiration:: Moon-gazing walks through our garden can bring us face to face with flitting, furry, fat bellied hawkmoths. Traditionally seen as omens of death, the death's-head hawkmoth is an important pollinator of night blooming plants. And hawkmoths are masters of the air! Flying fast, they can dart, hover, fly backwards, and perform inspirational aerobatics. Air pollution changes the smell of flowers, making it harder for moths and other pollinators to find them, which can impact the natural ecosystems we depend on.
Materials and Process:: Lino block print, oil inks on cotton paper
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Crunch
Crunch
Kimberley Zutz
CA$500.00


Dimensions: 20 x 20 x 1.5
Inspiration:: Snow and a cold winters day, the sound is muffled, you hear the crunch of the snow beneath your feet and your warm breath on the cold air. inspired from my friend Warren's photo
Materials and Process:: Acrylic and pen and ink
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Silence
Silence
Kimberley Zutz
CA$500.00


Dimensions: 20 x 20 x 1.5
Inspiration:: As we are always sitting in air, when we move we cause the air to be in motion and this motion in nature is wind. The constant wind coming over the hill has shaped the growth of the trees and the direction of the grass.
Materials and Process:: Acrylic and pen and ink
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A Little Rain Must Fall
A Little Rain Must Fall
Sheryl Parsons BFA
CA$600.00


Dimensions: 24 x 30 x 1.5
Inspiration:: Water becomes mist - becomes clouds - becomes lighter than air... with sunshine and the earths magnetic pull - filtering impurities so that every morning we awake to the freshest air.
Materials and Process:: Water Soluble Oil on canvas
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Let’s Go Fly a Kite
Let’s Go Fly a Kite
Sheila Thomas
CA$375.00


Dimensions: 24 x 36 x 1.5
Inspiration:: The current temperature of our world is rising. Climate change, yes indeed. Also our internal climate is melting our mental health. It is time, more than ever, to live in the moment. So, let’s go fly a kite. Let’s breathe in the fresh air and withdraw from the craziness of social media and terror.
Materials and Process:: Acrylic paint. I do love texture. So I bring movement into the beautiful air with gold and brushstrokes.
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