Marley Starskey Butler
Artist / Researcher / Social Worker

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2026
Compensare: For the Swallows We Weigh, Eastside Projects

2025
Augenblick

2024 
Thirty-Six, Midlands Arts Centre
Anchors, Hospital Rooms
Oh, So Now You Love Us? Eagleworks
Else, Multistory
Us Done Well EP X Warner and Butler

2023
4am

2021
Lemon Tree 
Thank You Music

2020
Black For Ages 
Tower In Memories

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Selected Ambient Portraits 2018 - 25

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Black For Ages



                                                   

I've been black for ages. I don't have to say this. You can see it in my face when you race across the street acting like i'm contagious. Peep the irony with Covid. Maybe its inside of me. You go with your intuition mixed with your superstition which forms a few predictions based in the spider webs you walk through.  Without even knowing it haunts you and scares me but rarely would i show it, instead wearing a mask of being carefree and stoic. It is what it is, a cage and a fist, below the matter do we exist. Temptation to kiss the freedoms that are now in our grip. The youth are equipped with knowledge and the will the resist.  No longer a wish. the curtains that were drawn to eclipse the truth on our lips was not enough to move all the bricks or break all the whips. Fugazi from the slavery ships. It is what it is, but maybe it's not.

Listen: Here

Written, Engineered, Produced and Mixed by Marley Starskey Butler at home. Cover photographed by Dani Cole.




“Ticket Line to Freedom - Those in the ticket line have purchased their tickets to their personal and societal freedoms and are waiting.”

Produced and curated by Danni Ebanks-Ingram. Photographed by Marley Starskey Butler. Directed and Edited by Marley Starskey Butler + Danni Ebanks-Ingram. Visual Concept Inspired by: Jem Cohen. Video starring Danni, Hemel, Joy, Janet, Daniel, Rebecca, Yonatan, Eli, Steven, Child 2, Letisha, Child 3, Debbie, Zephyr , Chearine.