THEESatisfaction - EarthEE

What this video is

Released July 2015 to support THEESatisfaction's second Sub Pop LP, this video exists within the creative ecosystem of Seattle's Black Constellation collective—an Afrofuturist, genre-defying alliance of musicians and visual artists. The video's textile-centered, near-static visual language directly embodies Alley-Barnes' practice of excavating Black Metaphysical traditions, connecting Afrocentric textile heritage,…

Why it matters

Represents a landmark artifact of mid-2010s avant-rap and astral jazz aesthetics, documenting the visual vocabulary of the Black Constellation scene at its peak. The video's refusal of conventional pacing or narrative marks THEESatisfaction and Alley-Barnes as deliberate outliers within both…

The director

Maikoiyo Anabi Alley-Barnes (b. 1977, Seattle) is a multimedia artist, curator, filmmaker, writer, and designer. He is a founding member of the Black Constellation collective and co-founded Seattle's pun(c)tuation gallery (2009–2013). His work has been…