Tim Hawkison is a true artist, he works with sculpture as his main media and he creates his work from completely random products, he's not afraid to use anything to create work, even if it's cardboard, rocks, plastic bags or even fingernail clippings. Tim received his MFA from UCLA, his work ranges from simple to elaborate and fully functional. His work is simply amazing, I wish I could come up with the concepts and the ideas he does.
The first picture, his piece called "Pentecost" looks like a basic tree, but it's more than just a tree; the trunk and branches are made of cardboard tubes that are tuned and the life size figures which are self-portraits of Tim Hawkison are programmed to drum out hymns on the branches.
Tim has a true passion for music because his another famous piece of his in the 2nd picture called "Uberogran". This piece is massive in size, it is a stadium sized, fully functional bagpipe made with plastic sheeting, electrical components and tubing. The "Uberorgan" actually plays it's self and has 6 gigantic balloons with 12 horns on each balloon with each horn tuned to play at a different octave. That idea is just a ridiculous, this is why he is a true innovative artist. Who would have ever came up with the idea of a stadium sized working plastic bagpipe? He has so many other amazing works they are definitely worth checking out.
It's artists like this who make me want to create and expand my artistic abilities, they challenge the limits of what you can create art with. Tim is an artist who takes art to a whole other level and that's why I like his work so much.
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