I am just nuty about tim hawkingson’s work. I relate to him because he is a builder, he loves to take a scrap of junk laying on the studio floor and make it work in some way that it was never intended for. I also enjoy how sometimes he leaves a piece looking unfinished almost sloppy. But it is never sloppy he uses those details to show what the piece is about. And I think he will often start building something and not know where he’s going, or what the piece is going to be until he is well into the project. That seems to be almost my trade mark; that i don’t know what the heck I’m doing until I’m half done (also one of my big problems). I like that he avoids technology; he wants the viewer to be able to see how his machines work. On one piece he needed an electric motor, so he built one out of clear plastic, wire, and whatever he had laying around. It makes the viewer try to understand how an electric motor works instead of just taking it for granted. Many of his pieces have been about his own body, which alot of the performance pieces we have been looking at have been dealing with too. But Hawkingson comes from a different viewpoint I think he is looking at his body more like a biological machine. He’s not all hung up on sexuality, or spirtuality, or whatever the latest fad ”uality” is. He just uses his body as a platform to build stuff on, and if the viewer wants to get some “uality” out of the piece cool. That’s fine with him he’s just happy that he has an endless supply of stuff to build things out of, it keeps his Turbo hyper attention deficit disorder syndrome ”THADD” happy. I also have THADD I think alot of artists do, and I love it, it makes my life full.
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