‘An artist is a person with talent and the skills to conceptualize and make creative works, often sought out for their skills and original ideas.’


The desire to relate authentically with other humans is why I continue to engage in reflexive praxis as a professional artist. My repertoire is diverse, subject matter contentious, as I challenge taboos, breaking things in collaboration with colleagues, employing interdisciplinary skillsets, a range of mediums and formats. I am my harshest critic.


The Rise and Fall of Masculinity
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The Rise and Fall of Masculinity

So today I receive that message above, after having tagged all nude content in my 500px site that was nude as 'nude' which you would thing denotes that the content you are posting is nude right?

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Connections
Alexander Hayes Alexander Hayes

Connections

I reflect on a more humorous aspect of my own personal life that I feel compelled to share. Some say that when a man (male) reaches his middle years he finds his younger man no longer fighting with his child, that his middle aged man facing up to his Elder and listening in on what matters most for the rest of the journey forward.

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Trust
Alexander Hayes Alexander Hayes

Trust

Above all else. Each and every time I'm presented with yet another challenge I remind myself that trust is the paramount, deep set and consistent intuition that gets me through. 2015 through the beginnings of 2016 has been beyond tumultuous.

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Freedom
Alexander Hayes Alexander Hayes

Freedom

The term libre detre - 'free to be' comes to mind. I hadn’t really thought of what the term meant till it became obvious to me that my perception in life or awareness as some describe it had arrived at a point where I knew I was restricted, lacking freedom in many ways.

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Two Becomes None
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Two Becomes None

So why is it that online dating platforms give their users the option to choose everything and anything including ‘single’ ? Here is how it seems for me.

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The End of High
Alexander Hayes Alexander Hayes

The End of High

We are happy to confirm for you that we have fallen in love, are in a relationship, settling down which allows you to now be happy for yourselves, to feel secure and confident that the status quo has been maintained, as required and as you need it.

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Letting E Go
Alexander Hayes Alexander Hayes

Letting E Go

Imagine a world where in pairing up with a cracker who are genetically designed and mate like dolphins where there is a definite season in which body parts turn blue and a mating ritual where the female chooses up to 4 'fathers' and the babies raised with the help of the whole tribe

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Stelarc
Alexander Hayes Alexander Hayes

Stelarc

At the end of the last century, to the crashing of the Twin Towers, the onset of the Internet and the dawn of the smart phone I began my Creative Doctorate at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia.

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Lateral Violence
Alexander Hayes Alexander Hayes

Lateral Violence

I dont give a fuck whether you think the word 'fuck' is over used or not part of your common everyday vernacular.

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We As Three
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We As Three

If, for just one minute, we were to extract ourselves from the everyday hum drum and bustle of the weekly grind, to step out of the shadows underneath the willow tree of holy matrimony, to open our mind to positive possibility of love and goodwill that extends in all manner of forms.

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Relationships
Alexander Hayes Alexander Hayes

Relationships

This was originally titled - " The Problem With (Traditional) Relationships." So....a quick article before I get headlong into the PhD writing for today. I'd like to mix two things today amidst the moralist overtones of the messaging I received this morning on Facebook.

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Love Unlocked
Alexander Hayes Alexander Hayes

Love Unlocked

I describe my own state of dissatisfaction as the way I had lived my life in a perpetual (and somewhat destructive) state of careening... from one monogamous relationship to another.

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Coming Into One Self
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Coming Into One Self

Today I was involved in a conversation with Magali that was far ranging, talking of our origins, lineage and cultural experiences that in some way shape our destiny and identity.

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The Kinsey Scale
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The Kinsey Scale

Tumblr seems to be THE place to be when it comes time to experience and contribute to one of the most groundbreaking and challenging areas of human expression.

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Cougars Hunt
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Cougars Hunt

I agree that it's time to drop to drop the predatory trope, however, I'm always hesitant in anything that pull us back to consider society in renewed, reformed binary.

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Gloryfornication
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Gloryfornication

For many the depiction of a human, semi-naked posing with a military weapon in a bunker complete with ordinance in backdrop would beg the question as whether the subject had been lost amongst a glorification of war, a figure trapped in an apocalyptic fornication.

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The Polyamorous Misanthrope
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The Polyamorous Misanthrope

Another pearl of wisdom from left of field which as with everything in life presents itself when we least expect it... to learn from.

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Our Nations Fair Capital
Alexander Hayes Alexander Hayes

Our Nations Fair Capital

Where does the time go? To live my life, be happy and die happy. That my four amazing children and their children achieve the same would be a dream come true. To be with a partner who loves me respectfully, lets me grow, treats me well, respects the differences between us and expresses gratitude.

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Bullying
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Bullying

Whilst looking through an old photo album tonight I came across a bunch of negatives and old developed photos from 1982.

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Tenth & Beaufort
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Tenth & Beaufort

I love digging around through hard drives crammed with things forgotten. For some reason or other in 2004 over a three hour period I recall sitting in the St. Vincents Town Council library after drinking a very strong coffee in Leederville, Perth Western Australia and writing three short stories

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