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...


BACK TO THE ART

I START A PROJECT THAT HELPS ME RESOLVE SOME INTERNAL CONFLICT IN MY LIFE AND ONCE IT'S SORTED I QUICKLY MOVE ON. BUT THEN THE PROJECTS GETS LEFT BEHIND AND BERRIED IN THE DIGITAL GRAVEYARD OF THE INTERNET. I REMEMBER THIS BLOG BEING ABOUT ART. ART THAT I LIKED. SO MAYBE LETS REVISIT THIS THEME AND SEE IF WE CAN'T REINVIGORATE SOME LIFE BACK INTO THIS BLOG. I THOUGHT I'D START WITH SOMETHING RUDE AND INAPPROPRIATE LIKE - BUTT BULLY. FOR THOSE OF YOU BLOG SPOT USERS THAT HAVEN'T MIGRATED TO TUMBLR... HERE'S SOME TUMBLR RABBIT FOOD FOR YOUR TRIP DOWN THE TUMBLR RABBIT HOLE.

http://buttbullyart.tumblr.com/


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