Tim Hawkinson

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Twelve Figures based on the Bathtub-Generated Contour Lace pattern were suspended within the branches of a tree composed of cardboard tubes covered with wooden-deck rubbings (Crow’s Nest).

Each figure taps with a different part of his body on a branch of the tree. Syncopated, rhythmic patterns are generated by a found computer program.

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A sort of drumming machine. The spin frequencies of a train of gears are randomly sampled, mixed, and synchronized to generate a non repeating rhythmic pattern. The pattern is heard as water dripping into buckets from the ends of the tentacle-like structures of a creature hovering above.

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The Emoter shows the artist’s image under the inexorable influence of random electronic signals.

This piece is composed of a photograph of the artist’s face that has been cut up into fragments and reassembled in a kinetic collage in which the various parts of the face are moved by the hydraulic mechanisms. These mechanisms in turn are driven by light sensors attached to the screen of a television that is tuned to a broadcast program. The sensors capture the flickering light on the screen and transfer this information into signals that control the lips, eyes and eyebrows, of the collage.

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The fourth generation of hands sprouting from hands spell out the words love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

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Nail clippings from the artist were collected and glued together to make the skeleton of a small bird. The pinky nail was grown out to make the cranium.

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The skin, carefully kept intact, was removed from a chicken. This was then stretched and dried over a wire armature.

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Plastic models of sailing ships, automobiles, airplanes and spacecrafts were fused together and encased in a plastic bottle vitrine.

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A wooden disk, covered with aluminum foil and anchored in the center, was spun at a high rpm. The spinning motion was recorded on the surface of the disk with a glass cutter.

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The canvas was covered with glue and laid over the artists unswept studio floor. The image of an oriental rug was then painted over this irregular surface containing the detritus of other projects.

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A sheet of bubble wrap whose enclosures were filled to varying degrees with ketchup becomes a half-tone photograph of a figure being tossed in a blanket.

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A sheet of bubble wrap whose enclosures were filled to varying degrees with ketchup becomes a half-tone photograph of a figure being tossed in a blanket.

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Bath-generated homunculi from Drain and Plug, cast in Sculpey; tap, kick, head butt and pound out rhythmic patterns on a log made of cardboard, paper, rope and string.