ESS HOFLICK
  • Paintings and Drawings
    • Relics for the Future
    • As the Light Comes In (1)
    • 2021-2022 No Words for Feelings
    • 2020-2021 Grey Matter
    • 2019/20 Unnaming - Karsh Masson Gallery
    • 2019- Beginner's Mind
    • 2018 Contemplating the Speed of Light
    • 2017 Arctic Circles
    • 2016 Drawings of the Yukon
    • 2015 Collective Imagination
    • 2014 Paintings of the Unseen
    • 2011 -14 Imagined Landscapes
  • Not Paintings
    • videos
      • 2018 Mourning for the Centre of the Night
      • 2018 Incantation
      • 2018 Holograms
      • 2012/14 White line
      • 2009 The Yellow Line Project
    • Installations
      • 2023 Koidu, residency, viljandi, Estonia
      • 2019 Crucial to Understanding
      • 2019 Unknowable
      • 2018 Hot Air
      • 2018 20 years, 20 Secrets
      • 2009 Bring to Light
    • Ice
      • 2018 Ice Pillow
      • 2016 Melting in Your Hands
      • 2012 Water Bombing
      • 2011 Slide Lantern
      • 2010 Message Lanterns
      • 2010 Ice Pillows 1
  • About
  • Contact
  • CV
  • Paintings and Drawings
    • Relics for the Future
    • As the Light Comes In (1)
    • 2021-2022 No Words for Feelings
    • 2020-2021 Grey Matter
    • 2019/20 Unnaming - Karsh Masson Gallery
    • 2019- Beginner's Mind
    • 2018 Contemplating the Speed of Light
    • 2017 Arctic Circles
    • 2016 Drawings of the Yukon
    • 2015 Collective Imagination
    • 2014 Paintings of the Unseen
    • 2011 -14 Imagined Landscapes
  • Not Paintings
    • videos
      • 2018 Mourning for the Centre of the Night
      • 2018 Incantation
      • 2018 Holograms
      • 2012/14 White line
      • 2009 The Yellow Line Project
    • Installations
      • 2023 Koidu, residency, viljandi, Estonia
      • 2019 Crucial to Understanding
      • 2019 Unknowable
      • 2018 Hot Air
      • 2018 20 years, 20 Secrets
      • 2009 Bring to Light
    • Ice
      • 2018 Ice Pillow
      • 2016 Melting in Your Hands
      • 2012 Water Bombing
      • 2011 Slide Lantern
      • 2010 Message Lanterns
      • 2010 Ice Pillows 1
  • About
  • Contact
  • CV

Relics for the Future

Developed during a year-long research project funded by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts 2024-2025, this body of work, still in progress, merges ancient symbology, tactile materiality, and embedded sound to evoke the presence of newly unearthed objects from an unknowable time. Drawing influence from sacred geometry, Celtic goddess mythology, and pre-Renaissance architecture, these works are speculative relics — fragments of a culture both lost and yet to come.
Three Graces, Oil emulsion on plaster panel, 38x40”, 2025.     *Audio available below.*
The Three Graces, Oil emulsion on plaster panel, 38x40”, 2025. *Audio available below.*
Lay down our blades, Oil emulsion and graphite on plaster panel, 38x40”, 2025. *Audio available below.*
Lay down our blades, Oil emulsion and graphite on plaster panel, 38x40”, 2025. *Audio available below.*
Three Graces, Oil emulsion on plaster panel, 38x40”, 2025. 
*Audio available above.*
Worshiping Celestial Bodies, Oil emulsion on plaster panel, 18.5x19.25”, 2025
Lay down our blades, Oil emulsion and graphite on plaster panel, 38x40”, 2025. *Audio available above.*
Maybe We’re from Outer Space, 
Oil emulsion and graphite on plaster panel, 38x40”, 2025
Hypnotic Labour,
soft pastel, oil emulsion and graphite on plaster panels, diptych, approx. 22x38” total
Riz-o-matic, Oil and graphite on plaster panel, 38x40”, 2025
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Watch: Artist video from No Words for Feelings (2 min)
  • Paintings and Drawings
    • Relics for the Future
    • As the Light Comes In (1)
    • 2021-2022 No Words for Feelings
    • 2020-2021 Grey Matter
    • 2019/20 Unnaming - Karsh Masson Gallery
    • 2019- Beginner's Mind
    • 2018 Contemplating the Speed of Light
    • 2017 Arctic Circles
    • 2016 Drawings of the Yukon
    • 2015 Collective Imagination
    • 2014 Paintings of the Unseen
    • 2011 -14 Imagined Landscapes
  • Not Paintings
    • videos
      • 2018 Mourning for the Centre of the Night
      • 2018 Incantation
      • 2018 Holograms
      • 2012/14 White line
      • 2009 The Yellow Line Project
    • Installations
      • 2023 Koidu, residency, viljandi, Estonia
      • 2019 Crucial to Understanding
      • 2019 Unknowable
      • 2018 Hot Air
      • 2018 20 years, 20 Secrets
      • 2009 Bring to Light
    • Ice
      • 2018 Ice Pillow
      • 2016 Melting in Your Hands
      • 2012 Water Bombing
      • 2011 Slide Lantern
      • 2010 Message Lanterns
      • 2010 Ice Pillows 1
  • About
  • Contact
  • CV