Tim Hawkinson

While the underlying engineering of Tim Hawkinson’s artworks appears to be of an extraordinarily complex order, the raw materials with which they are made, taken from everyday objects that are typically discarded after the substance in them is extracted, structure a world that opens to the possibility of amazement. It is a world with simultaneous and multiple centers of focus, in which the cosmology derived from the banal, or the physiological, morphs into a perpetual motion mechanism. It offers a microcosm of mathematical complexities, where, in repetition, the unremarkable illuminates the underlying structures that shape the world.