In his patafictive film F For Fake (1974), Orson Welles ruminates that of all the monuments to where we as humans have been and what we have sought out from existence, perhaps the cathedral at Chartres would be the most appropriate.
Well, while it may not provide the wealth of information about where we have been, whenever I look at the weathered granite runeforms of Tim Hawkinson’s Bear (2005), I picture it also as a potent testament. I suppose it is more precise to say that I feel this way about the ruin form of the teddybear, to the idea of a monument to the desire for tenderness that must be at the root of so much human drama, and which to me would fit right beside the ancient Hindu excavations that scatter Hampi, India.
Tim Hawksinon, Bear, 2005
Hampi, India
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