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Palimpsest: the not~so~blank slate

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

Palimpsest:

the not~so~blank slate

Throughout history, war and dominant cultures have attempted to silence ‘the other’s’ voice.   Books have been burned, hard drives wiped, sacred manuscripts written over, leaving only fragments of messages and meaning.  At the same time, humankind valiantly attempts to preserve traces of culture and history despite an overwhelming tide of new information that overwrites old information. 

From the ever-changing layers of artworks that continue to evolve as they are impacted by the environment, to people's interventions leaving only traces of history, Palimpsest: the not~so~blank slate explores what was lost and what can be found in the traces that have been left behind? 

The juror for this show is Regan Rasmussen. Check out her work at https://www.reganrasmussen.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 Friday August 2nd, 2024 to Sunday September 29th 2024. 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 August 10th, 2024 from 2-4 pm.  Meet our juror, Regan Rasmussen and hear how she chose 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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Secrets
Secrets
Kim Money
CA$375.00


Dimensions: 16 x 16 x 1.5
Inspiration:: This piece is from a series I have been doing called "the writing is on the wall", which is about urban palimpsest and also the multi-layered human condition. I believe everything in life is palimpsest, nothing stays the same and there is always something of what was before, if you look hard enough. This painting has been sanded and painted over many times-deconstruction and reconstruction-always leaving something of the history visable.
Materials and Process:: Acrylic and mixed media on cradled board
Accompanying music/song and artist: : Paradise by John Prine
Detail View
The City Gates Were Closing.
The City Gates Were Closing.
Liz Wells
CA$130.00


Dimensions: 10 x 10 x 1.5
Inspiration:: Working from a previous painting of mine depicting a cobbled village street, I decided to erase and rework. I sanded and painted a golden gesso. Then I drew organic shapes thinking to demonstrate how nature takes back human construction, instead a veritable wealth of strange and colourful figures sprang forth and I thought of folktales such as those of the Brothers Grimm. I had some other paintings I worked in the same style and a fairy/folk tale series evolved.
Materials and Process:: Gesso, oil paint, graphite.
Accompanying music/song and artist: : Saints and Sinners by David Francy
Detail View
Save the last dance
Save the last dance
Mary Wulff
CA$425.00


Dimensions: 26 x 18 x 1.5
Inspiration:: This is part of a series exploring memory. Within the image are scraps of my own travel journal to Japan in which I was contemplating water and its role in purification rituals. As a visitor, I carry the memories of my mother who served in the airforce during the Second World War. I wonder what intergenerational information I have inherited that might benefit from a little rewiring. After a small water purification ritual, I am still left with a not~so~blank slate.
Materials and Process:: Collage with painting
Accompanying music/song and artist: : Save the Last Dance for Me
Detail View
Traces of memories
Traces of memories
Mary Wulff
CA$600.00


Dimensions: 20 x 35 x 2
Inspiration:: This piece comes about from exploring the bits of memories that have been retained through photos and journals and asks the question what happens to our stored memories as the analogue system fades away. What do the small traces of memories mean to me or to anyone else and how can they be strung together to tell the story of who I am. This painting represents traces of memories from the analogue world transitioning to digital. Perhaps VR will be able to provide some meaning to those traces.
Materials and Process:: Oil on cradle panel
Detail View
Building A Home
Building A Home
Ryan O'Lewis
CA$500.00


Dimensions: 96 x 48 x 3
Inspiration:: See Original Artist Statement.
Materials and Process:: Sculpture, Found Cloth, Wood Lattice
Detail View
Wonder Why
Wonder Why
Rosanne Matte-Munro
CA$550.00


Dimensions: 24 x 24 x 1.5
Inspiration:: In this painting I'm interested in the idea of deconstructing layers of the past.....perceived thoughts and experiences to reveal insight....A NEW PERSPECTIVE....A NEW VISION.
Materials and Process:: layering of paint on prepared birch panel and then partially removing and deconstructing and adding more paint layers.
Accompanying music/song and artist: : Sync by HVOB
Detail View
Reclaiming.
Reclaiming.
Pierrette Vezina
CA$475.00


Dimensions: 24 x 24 x 2
Inspiration:: I have recently moved into an area that is a reclaimed gravel pit. There are « old traces of history » in the very earth and rocks that are crucial in creating these neighbourhoods. I definitely do not think that the erasure of the past gravel pit operated is altruistic. This erasure is basically driven by the same imperative that caused the original ecosystem to be destroyed in order to create the gravel pit. What I am sure of is that there is a definite relationship between then and now.
Materials and Process:: Acrylic paint. Collage. Pen. Marks with a fork. Marks with oil pastel.
Accompanying music/song and artist: : They Paved Paradise by Joni Mitchell
Detail View
Smoke
Smoke
Lorraine Douglas
CA$300.00


Dimensions: 11 x 30
Inspiration:: "Smoke" is a part of a series of works based on the myth of Eurydice. The line is "she disappeared like smoke into thin air." I use the same lines repetitively in pieces looking for new forms of representation in text and images. I used white writing on Duralar, gestural Sumi brush work and lettering with pen, 24 karat gilding, gesso and molding paste to obliterate, and paste paper techniques to suggest the drama of the scene unfolding.
Materials and Process:: Artist Book - Arches Text Wove, Arches Cover, Duralar, Acrylic, Sumi Ink, paste, gesso, PVA gilding, oil
Detail View
Earth Light
Earth Light
Lorraine Douglas
CA$300.00


Dimensions: 11 x 27
Inspiration:: The poem Genesis by Lorna Crozier explores what exists underneath all living things. The condition of light emerging in her poetry is a constant. I wanted to create calligraphy which looked like it was "underneath" and being flattened and fading from what was above.
Materials and Process:: Artist Book - Arches Cover paper, Duralar, Sumi ink, acrylic mixed media paintings, collage
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Rooms for Rent
Rooms for Rent
Elizabeth Carefoot
CA$350.00


Dimensions: 8 x 8 x 1
Inspiration:: I travel a lot, staying in relatively inexpensive motels. I am always interested in my neighbours, their demeanour, attitude, and clothing. They are mysterious, so in my mind I make up stories of their lives, their trials and tribulations. I like to inject humour into my tales with the use of odd juxtapositions, images and drawings.
Materials and Process:: Altered hard-cover children's book. Painted, embellished with original artwork and words.
Accompanying music/song and artist: : Goodbye Stranger by Trooper
Detail View
Secretly Potent
Secretly Potent
Nora Ready
CA$225.00


Dimensions: 30 x 9
Inspiration:: Local plants inspired this piece. I find the hidden tannins and pigments within foliage offer beautiful and sometimes mysterious marks on fabric. I am interested in the plants that have been growing in this place for far longer than the human settlers who dominate the landscape now. The Garry oak, the thimbleberry, the trailing blackberry and other plants, produce strong eco prints - tangible evidence of their resilience, secret potency, and ancient, inner vitality.
Materials and Process:: Eco printed cotton fabric, embroidery thread, yarn, glass, shell and wooden beads, sections of lace, fragments of music sheets, buttons. This piece is a scroll constructed with five 4" by 6" sections.
Detail View
"Richard's Ribcages . . . then and now"
"Richard's Ribcages . . . then and now"
Margo Farr
CA$300.00


Dimensions: 24 x 43 x 18
Inspiration:: After my friend Richard died with AIDS, I created 2 ribcage pieces to honour his ravaged body. For this theme, I reworked the pieces by typing a letter on cotton bedsheets about AIDS, our friendship & life on this planet since he died. Working this cloth into the darker ragged ribcage, some words are legible, others obscured. A beeswax coating softens my words & preserves the friendship. Text on the smaller ribcage attempts to counteract the erasure that accompanies AIDS & death.
Materials and Process:: Handmade paper (mulberry & abaca), chokecherry branches, wire, text on cloth, beeswax
Accompanying music/song and artist: : Clouds by Joni Mitchell
Detail View
It is- I
It is- I
Rosanne Matte-Munro
CA$250.00


Dimensions: 14 x 11 x 1.5
Inspiration:: This painting is part of a series. In this painting I am interested in examining molecular structures....the natural process of molecular modification...in understanding existing molecular structures as evidence of a past that can evolve and change to create new variants.
Materials and Process:: The process for this painting involves layering of paint on prepared birch panel and then partially removing and deconstructing and adding more paint layers.
Accompanying music/song and artist: : Looped by Kiasmos
Detail View
Smile
Smile
Nancy Issenman
CA$800.00


Dimensions: 20 x 16
Inspiration:: The concept of art helps to resurface that which is hidden and unspoken from the past.
Materials and Process:: photocopied pictures, chalk pastels and graphite
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doubt and do it anyway
doubt and do it anyway
Diana Smith
CA$295.00


Dimensions: 20 x 24 x 0.75
Inspiration:: This painting documents layer after layer of stream-of-conscious doubts that often accompany my creative process. In spite of this the painting emerged, the words were concentrated and the message transformed. Traces of the process are always apparent, both literally and conceptually.
Materials and Process:: acrylic, markers, collage on canvas
Accompanying music/song and artist: : Under Pressure by David Bowie and Gail Ann Dorsey
Detail View
Combine
Combine
David Martinello
CA$1,000.00


Dimensions: 21 x 19 x 12
Inspiration:: Combine is a sculpture distilled from a much larger one. The original work initially stood at 78” and swirled with an energy that I found problematic, which caused me to break it apart. Within the original piece was a calm place, the sphere and pod that is the essence of Combine. There’s a celebratory tone to Combine, shaped by experience, where what is lost is appreciated as something needed to arrive at what’s found now.
Materials and Process:: Maple and walnut with lacquer over a stain and burnished surface.
Accompanying music/song and artist: : The Great Elsewhere by Owen Pallet
Detail View
Entangled
Entangled
Natalie LeBlanc
CA$2,340.00


Dimensions: 55 x 41 x 2
Inspiration:: In my studio, I am revisiting the photographic work produced as part of my doctoral studies for which I photographed a series of abandoned schools as they stood in their liminal glory, puncturing the Canadian landscape. Entangled is based on one of these compositions. It is made from scratching through layers of paint, a palimpsest of multiple partial impressions ––things, objects, bodies, times, spaces and places–– drawing us into its depth as an entangled relation.
Materials and Process:: Oil on canvas
Detail View
Thoughtful
Thoughtful
Kerry Seifried
CA$250.00


Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 1.5
Inspiration:: This thoughtful young woman is posing against the chaos of a lifetime of harsh austerity, leavened by love. She has overcome challenges of living through WWII in wartime London and emigrating to Canada. While we can't see her clearly from our point in her future, she encourages us to think about our future as well.
Materials and Process:: Acrylic and photo transfer
Accompanying music/song and artist: : Diana Krall - I'll See You In My Dreams
Detail View
Jubilant
Jubilant
Kerry Seifried
CA$250.00


Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 1.5
Inspiration:: This young woman, like the Paris background behind her, has overcome the challenges of living through WWII and emerged stronger and more beautiful. The shadows of the past remain but have been pushed into the background. From our perspective today, she is starting to fade away, and we wish we could feel her happiness and confidence in the future.
Materials and Process:: Acrylic and photo transfer
Accompanying music/song and artist: : Diana Krall - Moonglow
Detail View
$prawl
$prawl
Jennifer Kivari
CA$1,200.00
In Person People's Choice Award

Dimensions: 30 x 40 x 1
Inspiration:: The inspiration for $prawl stemmed from my connection with Metchosin’s natural beauty and philosophy to preserve our farmlands, rural lifestyle, support biodiversity and its close community. My husband, two children and I have resided on our small farm in Metchosin for 27 years and it is very apparent that beyond our borders is a very different landscape. It is my hope that if developers come knocking on Metchosin’s door that it will be answered with a “no thankyou".
Materials and Process:: Materials: three local newspapers for images and narrative, pressed foliage and eggshells from the farm, honeycomb, recycled metal from a fabricating plant, bug screen, fencing wire, ephemera, screen , various papers, and paint.
Accompanying music/song and artist: : Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell
Detail View

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