I make paintings about the human body's unspoken movements: how we carry emotion, and how our hands move before they touch a screen. Working from tracing paper laid over my phone and laptop, I record swipes, clicks, scrolls and hesitations, then translate those cursor paths into paint. Black marks carry the rational and deliberate; color carries the emotional, intuitive and disrupted. In an era of automation and AI, this post-internet abstraction is a human-gesture rebellion: an archive of the ephemeral that lets the gesture survive, linking today's screen movements to the first cave markings.
Hiba Jameel is a Seattle-based artist whose post-internet paintings translate digital gestures, swipes, clicks and cursor paths, into physical mark-making. Her interactive public works (2017-2019) were commissioned across Seattle, including Psychosomatic with the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture. She consigns with Slipstitch Studio, Georgetown.