Sleeping Mask, 2010 by Phillip Jung
HHS! Second Edition 2011 Contender Phillip Jung
For those of us who own or have owned a car, you know that beyond the car’s transportation purposes and uses it is also an extension of your personal space—a floating consulate of homebase in foreign territories known as public spaces. Inside your parked car, you can read, eat, space out, sleep, cry, dance or just sit in silence, waiting for something to happen. Inside your car, you feel safe, protected; you can just be yourself, because it is a moving castle—your castle.
At the same time, your car also inevitably reflects you, whether you want it to or not. In that sense, the modern personal automobile moved the boundary between “public” and “private” outward. Your mobile personal bubble is exposed, or displayed even, to the public: on the street, in the garage, at the mall, by the beach, etc. It’s probably beyond the primary design intentions of any car, but you can’t really hide your car when it’s parked outside. Contender Phillip Jung takes a peek into these mini worlds with his series Windscreen. Read more…
