Work from @scrap_hauss ANALOG show last week.
It was such a pleasure to be able to exhibit my work among all of the incredible artists/creators from every aspect of practice in this community.
Thank you @dada_d1sco_ & @alexis.coverdale for this opportunity.
Title: First Porn
Medium: Mixed Media ( Acrylic and Oil Pastels ) on canvas
Size: 50.5x75.5cm
Growing up in Cambodia in the 2000s was an era full of analog media as the main source of entertainment. My first porn was exposed to me when I was only 6 years old through an analog TV in the house next door.
I cannot forget that moment. It’s always haunting me every time I hear the word sex or porn. It takes me back to the place where a bunch of men in their early 20s working as metalworkers are watching an orgy porn so joyfully in the house. I was stunned and curious at the same time. I wasn’t sure what to do or how to react. I don’t know why they didn’t stop watching or take me as a kid out of that place.
I’ve carried these memories with me. I never told this story to my family, because I felt ashamed about myself.
Guava Day 2025
Acrylic on canvas, 30x40cm
A self-portrait looking down at a guava fruit, depicting a nostalgic moment from personal experience. When I used to work at a guava farm, everything around me was so unsettled and blurry. Found myself in a hopeless state of mind, losing currency of youth, and coping with adjustment disorders.
The bright warm colours as the skin tone of the subject matter representing the energy of youth, creativity and naivety. The vertical shaded brush strokes represent faded memories and the slow disappearance of time.
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Badland 2025
Acrylic on paper in frame, 26x35cm, (f. 30.5x38cm)
The figure sits anxiously on a rock placed atop a sheet of paper, surrounded by decorative, half-eaten fruits and flowers in a fictional landscape. This surreal setting is accompanied by hot ground lava, a calm wave, and a cold, dark blue sky pierced by a beam of sunlight that never quite reaches the subject.
The scene is carefully curated to express the anxiety of our generation in the face of injustice and climate change.
Elements such as the human figure, the half-eaten fruits, and the scattered flowers symbolize the abandonment of youth by society — leaving us traumatized and paranoid, shaped by what has happened, and uncertain about what lies ahead in this “Badland.”
This piece will be exhibited on Friday Oct 3rd at @astray.film A fundraiser dedicated to supporting the creation of a powerful new film which aims to address the injustices within the youth crime system.
These drawings were made during the conversation with friends whom I visited/hang out with from the past few weeks.
Capturing the movement of friends and the dinner table in the kitchen while discussing our concerns and passions.
