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My Flesh Is Your Pasture, Dakota Noot
My Flesh Is Your Pasture, Dakota Noot
CGU MFA Theses
Painting my body frees it from the limits of reality. My body exists in a collaged state between man and woman, human and animal, abstract and figurative. By embracing my body’s power as an object, it isn’t limited to being a representation of myself. My painted body can be owned or identified with. It can be feared, hated, and lusted after. I submit my body, blasting it with horror, humor, and a sheer sense of enjoyment.
Paradise Maintenance Department, Dan Taulapapa Mcmullin
Paradise Maintenance Department, Dan Taulapapa Mcmullin
CGU MFA Theses
Based on personal and artistic research in Samoa, Polynesia, Oceania, and the South Pacific Islands, "Paradise Maintenance Department" investigates the contemporary colonial relationship between the U.S. Territory of American Samoa and the United States, while engaging in a poetic expression of f'a'afafine queer Samoan life.