Isaac Mendes Belisario was a Jamaican-born artist of Jewish descent who documented Jamaican life around the time of Emancipation; his sketches remain invaluable in offering one of the few visual records of that moment. Thomas-Girvan returns to that record with questions about the poetics and lived realities of the Black body.

Revisiting Belisario features six silhouetted wall hangings, each connected by the relationship of the Black body to fields of energy, transformation, and spirit. Together they hold space for ancestral veneration, performativity, and earth-honouring ritual – considerations that stretch from ancient civilisations to the present.