2007-8 KELLY AND LIN

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For too long,
I kept my sexuality to myself,
like some dark secret.
Still, curiosity oozed from my skin,
its scent an exotic pheromone.

I struggled to keep it at bay,
too afraid to surrender to it.

The last thing I expected
when I fell in love with him
was to find freedom.
Now I can explore the limits
of this once hidden territory.

– Hazel Dooney's 'artist's statement', scrawled in crayon and paint on a
white wall, for Sex Tourist, at Art Melbourne '07.

Related article: "Renault bans sexually graphic works at art fair",
Ashley Crawford, The Age newspaper, 25 April 2007