• Best Left Unsaid
• Having a Great Thyme!
• Practical Biology
• Rarely Touched Often Held
• They Showed Me Their Hole
• Bad Anatomy

Best Left Unsaid (2022)

Teenage and Gen-Z sexualities have often been characterized or misunderstood as immature, unruly and require guidance or even disciplining. The Ministry of Education’s Teachers Handbook, “The Teenage Years”, was developed to impart mainstream social morals on sex and sexuality in high schools, and which in its earlier incarnations, contained exaggerated fears about the excesses of certain practices such as masturbation. These images play the role of public information posters, meant to disseminate the values of yesteryear.Accompanying these images is a sultry narration of a passage about masturbation from the handbook.

Medium: Commercially printed pvc banner, audio file
Dimensions: 200 x 150 cm
Length: 4 minutes 7 seconds

Having a Great Thyme! A Guide to Gardening in the Garden City (2020)

A brush with the municipal authorities over guerilla gardening led to a reformative training session at the National Parks Board community gardens division. This video guide was made to help navigate eager gardeners through the cant’s and don'ts of creating their very own green spaces, and the intricate process of starting a community patch for themselves.

Medium: Video installation
Dimensions: Variable
Length: 4 minutes 28 seconds

Practical Biology (not a Biology practical) (2023)

Practical Biology (not a Biology practical) places the delivery (or exclusion) of key information about our bodies and sexuality via the Science and Biology syllabus under the microscope of inquiry.
The work manifests in the form of a student’s worst nightmare - An exam they did not study for. Questions, language and anatomy diagrams appropriated from local secondary 2,3 and 4 assessment papers and previous GCE ‘O’ level exams press the reader for practical day-to-day knowledge on top of academic concepts. It offers a glimpse of knowledge the artist wishes were imparted to him in an scholastic context.Accompanying the fictional exam paper is a collection of archival documents and found literature that chronicles the artist’s research process.

Medium: Printed booklet, found media
Dimensions: 21 x 29.7 cm, variable

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Rarely Touched Often Held (2023)

'Rarely Touched Often Held' is an honest documentation of intimacy and self-pleasure. I am joined by my coterie on a personal and platonic journey to negotiate our sexual curiosity. Through snapshots and staged photographs, I pen an almost self-indulgent love letter to our friendships and self-discovery since boyhood.

Medium: Book
Dimensions: 17.5 x 23 cm

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They Showed Me Their Hole (2024)

“Founded in 2019, the Underground Society was created to unite excavation enthusiasts who sought to practice their craft among like-minded comrades. The Society believes that excavation is the ultimate form of expression and self-affirmation, with membership from all walks of life, including scientists, intellectuals and artists.”~ Excerpt from the Underground Society Member’s Handbook.After a chance encounter online, They Showed Me Their Hole is the product of artist Joshua Kon documenting the activities of the Underground Society, a recreational group dedicated to the guerrilla excavation of cavities around the country.

Medium: Video
Length: 15 minutes 09 seconds

Bad Anatomy (2024)

Originally an attempt to escape from the far reaching influences of Anna Atkins on the cyanotype genre, this collection of anatomical illustrations holds no practical value as a scientific reference. Instead, each image is informed purely by the whims of the illustrator, who were chosen at random from all walks of life.I ended the experiment after only a month and deemed it a wonderful failure. I am eternally grateful to those who participated.

Medium: Cyanotype Prints, Risograph Zine
Dimensions: 9 x 13 cm

Installation Views

For the House; Against the House: Desire is Dead
OH! Open House
2023

Re-Connect/Centre/Converge: The Arts Festival
The Substation
2023

I Must Be in a Good Place Now
Starch
2023