Jacolby Satterwhite
Reifying Desire The Country Ball 1989 Model It Robin Battles the Worm Adam 4 Adam in the Black Rose Garden Prop 8 at the Labyrinth Wall Always You're A Winner! Healing in My House
I use video, performance, 3d animation, fibers, and drawing to explore themes of memory, desire, ritual, and heroism. A primary resource I am currently examining and utilizing are my mother’s drawings and music recordings. My mother's battle with schizophrenia has influenced her to create songs of desire and thousands of schematic drawings/inventions influenced by consumer culture, medicine, fashion, surrealism, math, sex, astrology, philosophy, and matrilineal concerns. The drawings are mostly common objects and luxury products found in the domestic sphere. I am synthesizing her drawings with 3D animation, video, painting, performance and my drawing practice. My body and art facility as an extension/interpretation of my mothers voice and drawings is an attempt to examine queer phenomenology and push the tensions created during translation and inheritance of studio practice.