Mobile Painting

A COVID self-portrait. Like many others, I was often stuck on the couch, doom-scrolling. This made me realize the irony of "mobile phones", which were created so that they can be taken places, but in the scenario of a world-wide lockdown, they have nowhere to go - at the same time, the internet allows us to "travel" by offering a window to places near and far. To avoid stuffiness and stiffness in the finished painting, I purposefully left little bits of the fluorescent pink acrylic underpainting exposed so that they peek through the oil paint and complement the skin tones.