Original Painting: "Every morning I am sooo tired..."

In "Every morning I am sooo tired and yet every night I just tap tap tap tap at this little rectangle I hate”—a title taken from a tweet by writer Meredith Haggerty—I used repetitive thumb strokes to mimic the compulsive swiping motion of doom scrolling through social media. I overlaid layers upon layers of paint depicting subsequent awakenings and feelings of rage and further layers of burying my head in my phone and thumb-stroke swiping. The painting becomes a record of the samsara cycle of numbing—the way we seek relief through the very mechanisms that perpetuate our exhaustion and dread.

Acrylic and alcohol ink on canvas