A luminous oil on vellum painting by Karyn Lyons, *The Summer Intern* (2021) captures the fleeting, liminal quality of a temporary presence through the artist's delicate handling of light and translucency. The vellum support lends the work an ethereal glow, as if the subject exists in a suspended, provisional state between arrival and departure. Lyons masterfully uses the medium's inherent fragility to evoke themes of youth, impermanence, and the quiet vulnerability of new beginnings.