Spin shows us two tops "gyrating over a sea of ribbon forms. Underneath this is a ground of spirals and texture. The piece uses very warm tones especially red and a golden yellow." Schlinke began her career as a dancer in the 1970s, and she soon became influenced by the thought of Merce Cunningham, John Cage, and Robert Rauschenberg, and started creating two-dimensional art on her own, exercising her fascination with stillness and movement. She sees her own work "primarily as a place where the mind can wander about and replenish itself as a way to focus on the 'internal' that is not reachable in concrete reality."

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