watercolour and oil on linen

80×60 cm

9 panels

This series explores desire and escape in the gay community through a visual language of birds and flowers. Each composition reflects on themes of addiction, fantasy, and emotional withdrawal, staging lush, surreal worlds where beauty coexists with unease. Addiction pulses through the work — not only as substance or habit, but as a craving for connection, validation, and fleeting highs. Underlying many of these lush surfaces is a shadow of risk — beauty tinged with danger, intimacy haunted by invisible threats. Birds and flowers mingle with playful and unsettling elements — duckies, coins, snakes — evoking longing, displacement, and coded attraction. The series moves through states of obsession and ritual, questioning how intimacy is performed, commodified, or deferred. Underpinning it all is the human urge to collect  to hold on to beauty, desire, and meaning, even as they slip away. Beneath the surface: bright feathers, toxic blooms, and the ache of wanting something that is out of reach.

Top row:
Quiet quickie Quezón City
Goa Goldn Shower
Okinawa Orgy

Middle row:
Taipei Thirst Trap
Jakarta Jungle Juice
Selling Singapore

Bottom:
Cruisin’ Colombo
Chittagong Chemical Chill
Swallow my Seoul