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Title: Kundu Drum. Artist: Vuetasau Buatoka. Description: Acrylic on canvas. Painting depicts the West Papua Kundu drums beating the sound of freedom!

-In loving memory of our Wan-Soul-Warrior-
Vuetasau Buatoka Junior
1982 – 2018
(Kabara, Lau/Nairai, Lomaiviti – Fiji Islands)
The Kundu drum was Vue’s public declaration; his personal manifesto for living a life wholly
committed to the West Papuan struggle for independence. As a Youngsolwaran, the Kundu as
metaphor, was Vue’s bold and unequivocal call to action.
The voices of the ancestor’s hovering in three dimensional space and time; provocative and
inspirational, in his role as President for the Tikina Kabara Youth or member of the Lau
​​Provincial Youth Council (2015) or chair of village sub-committees addressing issues of climate change
(2016); the Kundu drum resonates because Kabara Lauans are themselves renowned artisans, spiraling
four-dimensional harmony through kinship and singsing(/sigidrigi) echoing harmonically through
hardened wood, centered precisely and blackened internally with charcoal.
As an indigenous, a i-taukei, the black marker pen at geometric intervals outlines the entire
painting, referencing cubism and Pablo Picasso’s ‘finger up to the establishment,’ activists
whose art captures the atrocities and inhumanity of war, Vue’s Kundu drum was not created
for the art market, to be framed and placed behind Perspex glass cases, but as canvas to be
rolled up and out, as banners held high, in the hot sun or pouring rain as symbol of resistance.
Marched along streets, in public spaces, no matter the hour, this hourglass shaped object with
snake/lizard membrane the sound must reverberate across our Ocean. And Vue did just that, through
his experience with the Melanesian Indigenous Land Defense Alliance (MILDA) who he met on
the Island of Ysabel in the Solomon’s, (2016) and the Youngsolwaran Youth Movement as
founding member in Madang, Papua New Guinea (2014).

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  • OUR OCEAN
    • Maohi Lives Matter
    • The Ocean We Need
    • Connecting Our Ocean of Struggles: Remembering Why We Sweat and Cry Salt Water
    • Mai Em(Ocean) 2018
    • New Clear Ways >
      • Our Pacific Needs New Clear Ways NOT Japan's Waste
      • Not Japan's Dumpsite
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      • 75th Commemoration of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima
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    • Self Determination >
      • International Day for Human Rights 2020
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        • Wan Musik Wan Sing Concert 2020
        • Raise the Morning Star 2019
        • Vigil and Call to Action 2019
        • Free the West Papua Seven
        • Fiji NGO Coalition Call for Intervention
        • MACFEST Solomon Islands 2018
        • Youngsolwara Artist Camp 2018
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