Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Erica Gibbs

Girl Dinner

A painting of a candid photo I took of my friend on her phone when we were at a diner, depicting the common situation of people physically spending time together but individually on their phones. The image was edited to enhance the colour of the phone screen’s light on her face, her favourite memes are woven into the scene and her recently used emojis appear as a border around the painting, synthesizing representations of her physical and digital selves into one image, blurring the line between digital and physical embodied realities.