Jesse Edward Satterfield is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work explores subsets of Masculinity from a Queer perspective. His chosen mediums consist of material exploration in weaving, piecework, garment, ceramics, sculpture, and installation.
Masculinity is currently defined as the possession of the qualitie… Read More
Jesse Edward Satterfield is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work explores subsets of Masculinity from a Queer perspective. His chosen mediums consist of material exploration in weaving, piecework, garment, ceramics, sculpture, and installation.
Masculinity is currently defined as the possession of the qualities traditionally associated with men. To which qualities and from whose traditions does this definition refer? Throughout time, gender distinctions and attire have shifted in alternating cycles and varied greatly in different regions. However, a hardness an aggressive and often athletic association has been consistently imposed on the representation of maleness throughout history.
For Queer-identifying men, the opposite is often true. Gay men, and Queer people, have long been infused with femininity, allocated as lesser beings by the misogynist and homophobic patriarchy of the dominant, straight-male, masculine culture. What features were masculine in the past? What defines a man in the present? What could manhood look like in the future and how could we allow for a full spectrum of masculinities to coexist?
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