David Ellingsen's Archival Collage Work on Extraction and Land

David Ellingsen's Days of Plenty builds collaged works from archival photographs made between the mid-19th century and 1970, sourced from institutions, online auctions, and charity shops. Printed in pigment ink on cotton rag, hand-cut and finished with gold edging, the series confronts a century of resource extraction and trophy hunting on British Columbia's Cortes Island. Currently at Cowichan Public Art Gallery in Duncan, Vancouver Island, it travels to the Backlight Photo Festival in Tampere, Finland in 2026.