New York City-based multi-media artist Jacolby Satterwhite has created
a new work called Drawing Desire, a multimedia video project based on his mother’s
drawings. His mother’s battle with schizophrenia has influenced her to create songs
and thousands of schematic drawings/inventions influenced by capitalist desires and
American material culture. The drawings are mostly common objects and luxury
products found in the domestic sphere. The artist scanned 430 of his mothers
drawings, imported them into a 3D program called AutoDesk Maya 3D, then traced them
with a wacom pad. He used the lines to construct 3D models of the drawings, and
combined the 3D figures in the space with his own body. The work combines a
narrative between performance, drawing, and 3D animation. The series of 4 videos are
loosely based on the dense narrative structure of Hieronymous Bosch “Garden of
Earthly delights landscape. Jacolby’s work has performed at the Robert Melee’s
Talent Show and the Movement Research Festival of 2010. In addition to a Skowhegan
Residency he has a BFA from Maryland Institute College of the Arts, an MFA from U of
Penn and has performed at Weerrq! PS 1 MoMa in 2010.
