Fehulini: Demon or Demi-God? , 2020
200 x 150 cm (h x w)
Kakala (plant material) bound together by wires

In my younger days in Tonga, I was warned to beware of Fehulini whenever I ventured outside at dusk. Fehulini is a tevolo (Ghost/Demon). Who was said to appear as a beautiful young man or woman to people at night and seduce them then lure them to Pulotu the underworld. A seductive Pied Piper who preyed only on the beautiful. I wonder if he/she/they were once a Tongan Deity relegated to being a tevolo (devil, a loan word from English) with the advent of Christianity? Was Fehulini our Gender fluid Goddess of Love and Desire demonised by Christianity? A remnant of our sex-positive past demoted to being a cautionary tale for the young, consigned to forever walk the darkness forgotten by her people?

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