The God Hates Figs performance was produced during the Brink Residency in the summer of 2024. The residency selected six local LGBTQ+ artists to engage with their own personal or artistic ‘brinks’ with a public sharing at the end of the week. The work was encouraged and supported by the performance artist Lo Lo No and was part of the Margate Pride Art Map Festival.

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The Brink residency provided a unique context for Saint's research as the performance took place in the context of Ark. The Ark is a deconsecrated synagogue in a suburban road in neighbouring Cliftonville. This Judeo-Christian link provided a resonant space to explore how as a queer person and an artist Saint might approach traditional forms of ministry. A dialogue with other queer people about this internal conflict, especially queer artists, was pertinent to the exploration.

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Based on the biblical verse Mark 11:12 Jesus Curses a Fig Tree, an audience was invited to pelt Saint in priestly white robe with queer 'figs' on nearby Walpole Bay. The unusual figs served a dual purpose: allowing audiences to express their anger at The Institution in a manner reminiscent of medieval humiliation rituals, and enabling Saint to viscerally experience the weight of their indignation. At the public sharing at the end of the residency audiences were invited to commune around a fig tree adorned with figs and 'figs' (a nod to Sontag's Notes on Camp) and upon sharing their disdains for The Church they would be rewarded with a 'fig' to take home and destroy in their own time with the knowledge that it would leave a stain wherever it was thrown. A permanent mark of either their anger or of their release.