The Strange Familar

Allam often uses clouds in her work as a symbol of our hopes and dreams. In The Strange Familiar she considers our desire to create a more sustainable future. It is her response to our current dilemma of how to manage the growing mountains of waste plastic. The magnitude of the work alters our perspective of something so familiar that it becomes barely recognisable. The ordinary becomes extraordinary. The work has multiple associations:clouds, cells, viruses, fish eggs, foam,outer space and ...