I’m Hiba Jameel.
I translate lost digital gestures into permanent marks, turning fleeting mouse movements into a painterly language of memory, resistance, and presence.
I am an Iraqi-born, Seattle-based artist working at the intersection of painting, digital behavior, and memory. I do not consider myself just a painter I am a translator of gestures, a recorder of moments that vanish before they’re seen.
My work begins where the screen ends. I trace the emotional and physical residue of our digital interactions our clicks, drags, scrolls, and hesitations. These ephemeral gestures are the choreography of our lives online. I archive them in paint.
This is not about nostalgia for a pre-digital world. I live inside the interface. I see the screen as a stage for contemporary embodiment and painting to give permanence to what the internet erases.