askiy, 2022-2023

askiy is an exhibition that honours the life of plants through the time intensive practice of beading; as well as questions and brings forth colonial histories of using plants, or destroying plants, to control and dominate lands across Mother Earth. Through the gesture of beading Allison contemplates each plant’s personal meaning, history, past and future.

shown at Centre for Craft in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design in 2022 and 2023