Talk:Tim Hawkinson

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This article seems a little biased to me. Especially the last bit. I'll probably be changing it, unless anyone objects. kmccoy (talk) 01:41, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Removed the POV notice and the following text:

, and are equally as impressive for their technical skill as for anything else. However, Hawkinson's greatest artistic skill is a breathtaking creativity that comes from looking at things differently, often very differently. Toothpaste slowly squeezed from its tube becomes a clock; a delicate almost invisible spider web is made of the artist's own hair, and the beautiful skeleton of a humming bird of his fingernail clippings. Corrugated cardboard rolls up into a trompe-l'oeil tree stump; wooden men play off-beat hymns with their body parts, all the time suspended from a huge tree; fully rigged ships are trapped inside wheels; an elephant made of aluminum foil is squashed against the wall, and Donatello's Mary Magdalene is reborn, made of exploded truck tyres. The breadth of his interests, his innovatory spirit, and the often scientific quality of his draughtsmanship suggest a modern Renaissance man

Please feel free to rewrite with a less POV tone. kmccoy (talk) 19:34, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)