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dissolve My grandmother always sat at the kitchen table. When I was young I would sit beside her and stare at the plastic contraption she pressed to her fingertips. It was innocuous,  but I knew what lay inside was a secret needle waiting to jab out at any moment.  She often pressed it to her … Sugar:: Ursa Eyer

Candy Land 2021: The ‘New Normal’ Edition  What’s more euphoric for a child than a world made of sugary treats? Candy Land, the iconic board game, was created in 1948 by Eleanor Abbott while recuperating inside a polio ward in San Diego. Polio seclusion, quarantine and rehabilitation was long and lonely, especially for the children … Sugar:: Thom Karamus

Sugar from outer space  In 2000, NASA and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory reported the discovery of a gaseous cloud containing sugar molecules, in which new stars are forming near the center of the galaxy.  In 2019, an international team of scientists discovered sugar, in the form of ribose on two meteorites. Ribose is a … Sugar:: Stylo Moniker

SOIL. Situated on the grounds of sugarcane plantations, bearing witness to and seeding the violent cultivation, harvesting, and production of sugar—soil represents the consequences of racial slavery and conquest executed through the carceral spaces of slave ships, auction blocks, plantations arrangements, architectural designs of confinement, and social death for export and consumption. The installation SOIL … Sugar:: Shana M. griffin

??Fats Domino, the name bring to mind the saturated fats in Cookies and other grain-based desserts and the yellow, white and blue bags of sugar on the shelves of many baking aisles in groceries stores here in southern Louisiana. It’s not his name but the role he played in the music world that was profound. … Sugar:: Rontherin Ratliff

Vanity: How Sweet is it? What is it about humanity that makes it sometimes so inhumane? This work was made to explore the dichotomy and irony of our relationships with sugar. It became the fuel that exploited free labor by the system of enslaving Blacks and Africans. The first refined sugar apparently appeared in India … Sugar:: Ron Bechet

”Up To My Ears” depicts an accumulation of sugar’s pervasive addictive nature and its history’s recurring sins. As a second generation Holocaust survivor I fully understand the insidious and suffocating gravity of inherited traumas, both overt and subtle, albeit not of extant racism. This image portrays both culpable perpetrator and silent witness. It acknowledges harmfulness … Sugar:: Robin Levy