In Jacolby Satterwhite’s Reifying Desire, he creates new identities while simultaneously combing his own life into his narrative through his mother’s illustrations. Satterwhite transcends a single medium of animation, in his world the characters and the world are rendered in viscous 3D renders while simultaneous occur the line drawings.
Satterwhite explores politics and the black body, he combines a love letter to his mother and his past self with afrofuturism and 90’s inspired game graphics. In as diverse and complex of the different mediums, Satterwhite experts conducts a symphony of personal trauma and Sci Fi imagery, he choreographs his catharsis through a cinematic epic.