Satchel Lee Builds Astonishing New Worlds

It’s in the gentle, nibbling work of Satchel Lee that astonishing new worlds are built, new terms set. Like Kevin Jerome Everson, Callie Hernandez, and Hong Sang-soo, her attuned senses find, all around her, beauty in the “tiny morbidly life-worn detail,” to borrow a phrase from critic Manny Farber. Beauty: that too-maligned word. Lee’s photographs, videos, miniatures, and music videos testify to a perpetual astonishment. “I love people so much,” she tells me,