From July 21 to August 10, 2025, Balanced Forces turned the Shoreline Trail in Port Moody, British Columbia, into an open-air AR gallery as part of the city’s ART OUT SIDE festival, presented with POMOARTS. Every artwork was built with illust and opened on visitors’ phones, right on the trail.
- When: July 21 to August 10, 2025
- Where: Shoreline Trail, Port Moody, BC, Canada
- Artworks: More than 40 virtual artworks
- Artists: From 18 countries, including Iran, the UK, Japan, France and the US
- Visitors: More than 700
A discovery tour through nature
Visitors walked the trail and found artworks placed among the trees, boardwalks and shoreline. Each piece was chosen to contrast and converse with its natural surroundings. Opening an artwork on a phone showed it at full scale, in the exact spot the artist intended.
Port Moody is also where Balanced Forces began. What started as a one-time exhibition here grew into a collective that has since taken AR art to New York, Miami, Austin, Jersey City and the Netherlands.
From the trail
Participating artists
Alie Jackson, Artish, Azekiwe, Charoa, Chazz Gold, Clara Bacou, Copy Planet, Darcy Gerbarg, David Hernandez, David Oxley Art, Dean Stanton, Dorthe’s Joy of Creation, Drake Arnold, Eceertrey, GABO, Gabriel Allan Tolliver, Glassy Nakamoto, Halima Muhammad, JBR Visuals, JJ Weinberg, James Bacchi, KEZIAI, LM Designs8, Lynn Mosqueda, Nita.N, Pilar Cote, Plant Daddii, Plurality Reality, Sven Schölermann, TheRobo42, Trish Gianakis, Trish Malhotra, Ukranean Woman, ZCreativeMedia, Zen Materialist, instantgalina, lolli.olly and signxifxixcanxce.
See every artwork on the Balanced Forces exhibition page.
Read more about Balanced Forces and illust.
Planning an art walk?
Put art on the trail.
ART OUT SIDE drew more than 700 visitors to AR art on Port Moody’s Shoreline Trail. illust lets you place work along any path, park or waterfront, and visitors need nothing but their phone.
