Azekwoh, an artist and author who channels his love of storytelling into his work, using both digital painting and sculpture to evoke strong dialogue. His work is deeply rooted in African folklore and mythology, reinterpreting these narratives to reflect transformation and change. Through digital compositions, he constructs layered visual stories that preserve cultural memory while reshaping it for contemporary audiences. His use of light, shadow, and texture gives his digital work a striking materiality, reinforcing the ways memory can be both fluid and enduring. Adekunle, examines the fragility of the human experience through textured compositions that expose the narratives of escapism within a fractured society. His layering of oil bars and pastels allows for both density and translucency, creating a surface where figures seem to waver between presence and erasure. This technique mirrors the psychological and emotional states of his subjects, people caught in transition, navigating instability and longing for refuge. The interplay of bold color blocks and gestural strokes gives his work an intensity that speaks to both the weight and impermanence of memory, capturing moments that feel at once deeply personal and universally resonant. The Duduyemi series by Adelakun expands this dialogue by using material as both subject and structure. His rope-bearer technique (where rope is adhered to canvas and painted over) introduces a sculptural relief that transforms the surface into a dynamic terrain of tension and release. The rope holds layered meanings: a reference to histories of labor, migration, and endurance, but also an act of reclamation, binding together narratives of resilience and transformation. Duduyemi challenges traditional representations of Black skin, introducing depth and texture that resist simplification. In his work, material becomes a site of resistance, where the act of layering and obscuring speaks to the complexities of identity, visibility, and memory.