Joy Yamusangie is a visual artist, currently working in London. Specialising in illustration, Joy experiments with a range of traditional processes such as drawing, painting and collaging to produce mixed media pieces. Exploring socio-political themes from a personal perspective, Joy’s work takes the form of paperworks, clothing and paintings on cardboard. Their work explores themes of memory, intimacy, race and culture from a personal lens.

Blue Glass Fortunes is a series of dreams visualised, revealing subconscious anxieties, hopes and desires.

I decided to document these dreams, through voice notes and paintings throughout the year. The title itself came from a dream where I was surrounded by blue glasses, and since I’ve been fixated on the meaning behind this object.

I look back onto this series for revelations of myself, fortunes ahead and signs of what will be. In my daydreams I have control but dreams in the night are where I have none.

The exhibition took place in July 2019 at Beers London Gallery and included an in conversation with This Is An Art Book, presented by Eating At The Same Table.