Himig ng Hegulung (Portrait of Luming Tuan), Acrylic on unstretched Canvas

Joshua Emmanuel Penaflorida better known in the arts scene as Tokwa Penaflorida, is an artist whose diverse work spans children’s book illustrations, conceptual art, and queer erotica. His questioning of form appears as a constant theme in much of his paintings entwined with his advocacy for representation. Mastering the use of acrylics, watercolor, and digital, his expressionistic body of work echoes a somber opalescence evident by his gradation of pinks and soft, sinuous lines. He graduated with a major in Visual Communication from the UP College of Fine Arts