Bhozhoo Aaniin My shop’s name, Daysky Designs, is influenced by my last name Keesic, which roughly translates from Ojibwa to English as to a beautiful day sky. I am currently living and working in Peterborough Ontario Canada. I learned to beadwork at a young age on Leech Lake reservation in Minnesota where we moved when I was 12. I always liked to make gifts of bead and leather work for my family
and friends. As a girl I wanted to be an artist and was influenced by woodlands art and beadwork done by my family. My life’s influences were my mother and father, but I also lived a time with my uncle and aunt in Northern Ontario. That is where I learned how to sew leather work. If I was to give another name it would be my sister Malinda Gray who is a PhD student of Aboriginal Studies at Trent University. Resin has been a 4 years experience, and I am self-taught through trial and error. My early influences were when I was 10 and saw a scorpion encased in resin from New Mexico. Also my mother bought a book that had resin art in the pages but I was not allowed to attempt since it was not safe for children. (I always loved looking at that book with the submerged and locked in time Dandelion fluff.) I experimented in natural elements in clear resin to see if I could achieve similar results. This is where I am today. Is this work Indigenous? I am indigenous and everything I make is too. 😊 My cultural influences are seen in the feathers, bones, shells, flowers, birchbark, quills, Cedar, and four medicines I capture to create jewelry. some of the first works were in cabochons which I successfully have sold to many bead artists in Canada. Now I make my own signature jewelry and Art. Miigwetch
