FAKIR MUSAFAR- 8/10/1930- 8/1/2018

FAKIR MUSAFAR

 ( August 10, 1930- August 1, 2018) 

 My beloved Fakir Musafar passed away peacefully at home just a bit before noon today. 

Light a candle to guide his journey to the unseen world.

 He was loved, he is love . 

He will not be forgotten. His legacy will live on, his memory will be honored. 

What is remembered lives.

If you light a candle for him that is non electric please do not leave it burning if you are not home.

 We will have a celebration of his like around Samhain/Halloween time. 

I thank again all those who have sent handwritten letters, art cards, 

and told him that his lifework did and does matter.

 Namasté — with Fakir Musafar.

CLEO DUBOIS

Fakir Musafar 

(born Roland Loomis)

performance artist and early proponent of the modern primitive movement. 

He has experimented with and taught body modification techniques such as body piercing, tightlacing, scarification, tattooing, and flesh hook suspension. 

He is involved in the BDSM, kink and fetish communities.

At age four Musafar claimed to have experienced dreams of past lives.  He reports having given himself his first body piercing when he was twelve. Based on his viewing of anthropological works he first performed his idea of a flesh hook suspension in 1966 or 1967.

As an adult he gave himself the name "Fakir Musafar".

 Musafar has documented his experiences in writing about and teaching others "body play". 

In the early 1990s, Musafar appeared in mainstream media shows like NBC's Faith Daniels Show, 

CBS's People Are Talking, CNN's Earth Matters and Discovery Channel's (Beyond Bizarre). 

In 1998 He produced documentary segments for London Weekend Television's Southbank Show and Playboy Television's "Sexcetera". In 2000, 2001 and 2003 he has appeared in documentaries for The Learning Channel (Human Canvas Part I and Part II), TBS, FX Channel and Discovery Channel plus a major appearance in the 2001 documentary film "Modern Tribalism". 

In 2004 became a spokesperson for the National Geographic Channel's Taboo and has expressed "radical contemporary" views on body rituals on the Travel Channel's 

"Eye of the Beholder" series hosted by Serena Yang.

Musafar's writing and photography appears in Theater Journal, Bizarre magazine (fetish and SM exploration), Skin Two and PFIQ (Piercing Fan International Quarterly). He has lectured and performed at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts (Rapture Series, 1995); Copenhagen's International Seminar on BODY:Ritual-Manipulation (1995). 

His photographic art was exhibited at the Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles.

In 1999 his performance group performed "Metamorphosis" at the Los Angeles Fetish Ball as well as for close friend Annie Sprinkle's Benefit Show at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco.

Musafar lectured at colleges and universities and to New Age and other special interest groups.

 Musafar is considered a Master piercer with over 40 years experience in the body arts. 

He is also the founder and director of the Fakir Intensives which hold training workshops on body piercing and branding in San Francisco, the first in America.

Musafar is featured in Modern Primitives, published by RE/Search, and in the full-length documentary Dances Sacred and Profane.

 He also appears in the movie Modify and Charles Gatewood's documentary, 

Dances Sacred and Profane.

In May 2018, Musafar announced on his website that he was suffering from terminal lung cancer. 

On 1 August 2018, his wife Cleo Dubois announced that he had passed away.

ON A PERSONAL NOTE-
 I HAD THE PLEASURE TO PRESENT FAKIR MUSAFAR'S PHOTOGRAPHY AT MY GALLERY- ANTEBELLUM HOLLYWOOD IN 2007.
FAKIR IS A SHAMAN- 
AN ORGINAL CREATIVE SOUL.
 HE IS ONE-OF-A-KIND.
RIP MASTER.
RICK CASTRO