The Art of Resilience: Alternate Heirlooms | createid

Interdisciplinary artist Hallie Maxwell’s great-grandfather was killed in the August 6, 1945, bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. In “Alternate Heirlooms,” she uses the tradition of tying repeating Awaji knots in mizuhiki cords to honor him—as well as her great-grandmother and grandmother, who survived the blast.