YU-CHING CHANG

As the speed of information continues to accelerate, we are surrounded every day by news, social media content, and emotional messages. We have gradually become accustomed to using complaints as a way of expressing and transmitting our feelings. Whether positive experiences or negative emotions, they spread like sticky tar, splattering and clinging to us. Before we have time to clean ourselves off, another wave of information and emotion arrives, continuously pulling us into new emotional cycles.

“WHINGINGING” originated from my observations of myself and the contemporary online environment. I realized that I, too, often participate in complaining without even noticing it. Before I have truly processed one experience, I am already receiving the next stimulus. Over time, these seemingly temporary emotions do not truly disappear. Instead, they accumulate layer by layer like residue.

This led me to ask: If these emotions, repeatedly amplified, shared, and accumulated, could be materialized, what would they look like? I imagined them as tar—a heavy, sticky substance that is difficult to shake off. To me, this collection is not simply a criticism of complaining, but an attempt to reconsider our relationship with emotion and information. When the world constantly demands that we react and express ourselves immediately, perhaps the real challenge is maintaining the ability to choose how we understand and see the world before we are overwhelmed by emotion.