Ruby Bailey works across film, digital media, paint, sculpture, and installation. Her work draws
from two source streams held in tension: contemporary screen life and the physical world. She
collects internet-native iconography and screen-derived marks alongside shapes derived from
nature, her drawings, photographs, and diary entries. Over time these sources have formed a
personal visual language, built from recurring signs and symbols such as her digital avatar
L00bi, airplanes, grass, water, and cursors. This language lets her stage disclosure with
precision. Diary language becomes floating text. Photographs are redrawn into simplified
shapes. ASCII translation, embedded visual codes, and font-based masking set up a push and
pull between vulnerability and secrecy, where confession becomes a practical problem of
access, legibility, and risk. Two ongoing worlds structure the practice. Loobtopia concentrates
visibility through dense, high-saturation composition. Ethereality is a reduced-color “nothingland”
of haze and constraint, where loneliness and longing settle into a muted sublime. Bailey is from
South Africa and is based between South Africa and New York City. She has exhibited
internationally, including in London, Berlin, Dubai, New York, and Hong Kong.