"For us, the idea of having a work that has contradictions is very important—when, in affirming something, it includes itself and attacks itself. How can you put together all of these things that have nothing to do with each other? You use glue! Glue can be an idea, a word. You can use an ideological glue."
"Emotor," detail (2000)
"Emotor," detail, 2000
Mixed media: image, 49 x 36 x 4 inches; ladder, 27 x 24 x 19 inches; cable, 174 feet Private collection
Courtesy Ace Gallery, Los Angeles
Mixed media: image, 49 x 36 x 4 inches; ladder, 27 x 24 x 19 inches; cable, 174 feet Private collection
Courtesy Ace Gallery, Los Angeles
"I started thinking about imagery and the face and how any kind of input into the face- no matter how irrational or unpatterned- would still create something we can decipher, look at, and read and get some sort of message from. I’m using my face, but I don’t really consider it a psychological self-portrait or anything like that. I can’t make most of these faces myself."
- Tim Hawkinson
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