Jehu Sabado is currently an undergraduate student at the University of the Philippines Diliman - College of Fine Arts taking a degree in Studio Arts (Painting). His current works explore queer figures in natural or primitive spaces. The interaction between figure and space creates images that portray themes of intimacy, desire, and visibility.
While natural spaces are generally associated with solitude and tranquility, such spaces in the paintings become sites of vulnerability and exploration of one's identity, evoking tension between wanting to be seen and the desire to be hidden from sight. Characterized by painting in an emotionally charged, bodily manner — with thin and thick, gestural marks and vivid, exaggerated colors — his approach to painting is almost abstract in nature, with only visual suggestions of the space and figures, distorting and expanding reality through queer objectivity.