BOYS WILL BE BOYS

I live in Manukau City, South of Auckland; New Zealand. We have the densest pacific island population of any country in the world. The given is that meeting other like minded queers like yourself is easy, since geographically we’re all in the same city. You would think it were that simple. The Polynesian Princes of south Auckland are as closeted as the gays in the NRL. They have refined their visibility to a passing fragrance of I WANNA FUCK YOU BUT I”M WITH HER. The problem with this metaphor is that it reeks of homos in south Auckland but these men have succeeded in making themselves invisible.

So therein lays the problem of trying to engage and understand a type of man that exists only in theory. I imagine this type of man as wanting to express his sexual fluidity and attraction to the same sex however being stunted by his contradicting physicality, one of which is typically hetronormative and in gender specific terms what is appropriate for him to conform to i.e. “I am built in the manner of a man that is only biologically compatible with a significant other of the opposite sex”. This belief system is made a mantra that affirms a masculine stereotype and a gender ideal that is perpetuated, driven and motivated both sociologically and politically by a western heterosexual statuesque and moral majority.

The art works posted on this blog are inspired by this idea. This is JERRY THE FA’AFAFINE he is pleased to have finally found you and met you...


MY BOYFRIEND

This is my boyfriend Pati, I enjoy making these. They're fun and risk free which is how making art should sometimes be.


7 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 12, 2012 at 1:27 AM

    aww u guys r so cute.. i want a samoan boyfriend! if u dont mind me asking are u guys in a monogymos relationship? im an 18 yo samoan artist how do i get a boyfriend!! lol ... i know randoommmm... but i just dont have any samoan gay couples foe me to look up to.. thankx :) ... john

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  2. JERRY THE FA'A FAFINEJune 12, 2012 at 8:41 PM

    be in the world. see what happens. can't think of anything els to say.

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  3. AnonymousJune 12, 2012 at 10:01 PM

    oh.. ok :) thankx

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  4. JERRY THE FA'A FAFINEJune 13, 2012 at 8:34 PM

    how can I see your art? do you have a space online?

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  5. AnonymousJune 14, 2012 at 3:23 AM

    im not established or anythinh :( im currently a student. but i do have a devient art.. here it is :) ....
    http://sionemonu.deviantart.com/

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  6. JERRY THE FA'A FAFINEJune 15, 2012 at 4:56 AM

    Like your art... it is hard to paint so you should consider yourself very gifted as your work is quite detailed. Particularly love the portrait of your Mum on her wedding day. I'd love to interview you for this blog If you'r keen. email me. tanugago@hotmail.com thanks for sharing.

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  7. AnonymousJune 16, 2012 at 4:11 AM

    sounds great! :) im keen..

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