Series 2: Doomscrolling While You Wait for Your Uber

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Series 2:

Doomscrolling While You Wait for Your Uber

The painting captures one of the defining rituals of contemporary life: waiting. A lone robot sits beneath the glow of streetlights, motionless except for the endless movement of its thumb across a screen. The title is playful, yet it reflects a deeper truth about modern existence we no longer know how to simply wait.

The robot is symbolic of a society increasingly governed by algorithms, notifications and instant gratification. Although built to think logically, it has adopted one of humanity’s most irrational habits: consuming an infinite stream of information that neither enriches nor satisfies.

Around it, the world continues to move. People pass by, lights flicker, life unfolds beyond the screen, yet its attention remains fixed on the device in its hands. The irony is intentional. Technology was designed to give us more freedom, but it often occupies the very moments where we might have looked up, reflected or simply existed. By replacing a human with a machine, the work blurs the line between creator and creation. It asks whether we are still using technology as a tool, or whether we have slowly begun to mirror it ourselves.

In the quiet minutes before the Uber arrives, the painting suggests that perhaps the greatest thing we have lost is not time but our ability to be present.