Sunday 4/5 Entry

Carlin Wing

Wing's work centers around the global community. Her earlier work, which featured vacant office spaces, targeted the similarities we all have with each other in regards to our spaces. With each separate culture boasting its own style and architecture, office spaces seem to transcend cultural divides.

Her current work, "Hitting Walls", focuses on commercial marketing that taints community activities. In this series, Wing photographed squash championships. In the way she photographed, Wing made it clear to the viewer what was clearly wrong with the scenes: bold text hovering on the walls of the arena, showcasing investment and financial firms.

Wing's work has always had an unsettling feeling that I strive for in my own work. Her series of the office spaces seemed almost like abandoned utopias, as if they were set up pristinely and then left with no human contact, which is exactly what they were made for. "Hitting Walls" clearly talks about and dissects the abnormalities of the squash scene. A combination of abandoned utopia and interactive abnormality is what I hope to achieve currently.

http://www.squashtalk.com/html2/news09/apr/news09-4-231.htm
http://harvardmagazine.com/2007/01/walls-of-power.html
http://anthonygreaney.com/index.html