Saumaiafe & the ghazal singer

I am a child of brown women birthing with roots across the ocean; from Arabia to India, Ireland, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Fiji. I spend copious amounts of time writing, painting and  thinking about the human condition and would to meet other like minded artists and thinkers.

I teach a number of courses in Curriculum, Theories in Education and Pacific Studies at the University of the South Pacific. I have a passion for the creative arts with a specific focus on displacment, hybridity and the contemporary Pacific Islander. I am interested in promotion and development of the arts in the region and would like to see more support systems in place for the nurturing of emerging Pacific writers and artists of all genres.

flying fish eyes
hover over blood dreams.
ochre women weeping.
still she wears the moon around her throat
in search of a song…

(c) lost rainbows never sing, 2009[header shows excerpt of painting with same title]