Sacugar (Isah Edwards) is a Texas-based artist whose work is a lullaby to the black epic. Inspired by her school days in Jamaica, she seeks to reimagine paradise and further the conversation on afro-surrealism.

Tackling the anxieties of the radical fight for freedom, her art tells the story of the tender black smile and its gold-toothed zeal. She uses Procreate, paint, and accumulated trash to create a militant merge of the dream and its reality. Her process begins with memory, sketching the mundane and expanding on everyday occurrences with colourful, surreal questions.

Sacugar’s practice is rooted in resourcefulness, using free materials like cardboard, metal, and street signs as canvases. This hones in on the idea of the everyday, pairing found objects with gifted paints to express the surreality of the mundane. When physical materials are inaccessible, she uses digital tools to ask the same questions with fewer constraints.